Executive Brief Update 2013: WTO Agreement on Agriculture 1. Background and key issuesDuring 2012-13, while the overall process of the World Trade Organizati... 27/11/2013
ACP–EU agricultural trade relations and the WTO Bali Ministerial Conference Special report – November 2013 1. Introduction In the run-up to the WTO Bali Ministerial meeting, this special report seeks to review de... 19/11/2013
Special report: Lessons from the last global food crisis: Plan now for the next crisis The latest FAO food supply projections suggest that global cereal prices are stabilising. The FAO, in its Cereal Supply and Demand Brief of 9 May 2... 15/11/2013
Calls for ‘a right to development’ and ‘a right to trade’ to be enshrined in WTO rules A report for the Commonwealth Secretariat entitled ‘The right to trade: Rethinking the aid for trade agenda’, by Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Charlto... 10/10/2013
Trends in the global citrus trade Data compiled by Freshfel and Shappe reported on the website Fresh Fruit Portal suggest that total southern hemisphere citrus production is project... 10/06/2013
Laurent Pipitone: “The ICCO is working to address the flaws in market mechanisms” Laurent Pipitone has worked for the International Cocoa Organization since 2004 and has been Director of its Economics and Statistics Division... 09/06/2013
Decline in cotton stocks could support prices In March 2013, the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) projected a decline in global cotton inventories for next season, based on a repo... 26/05/2013
Prospects for soybean and soybean oil prices in 2013 The website Agrimoney.com has published an assessment of the soya commodity sector in 2012, with a range of analysts’ views on prospects for 2013.... 25/03/2013
Chinese stock levels place limits on cotton price recovery in 2013 The website Agrimoney.com has published assessments and a range of analysts’ views of cotton price movements in 2012 and 2013. It reports that in 2... 25/03/2013
India preparing a major banana export programme According to press reports, ‘an ambitious plan has been drawn up by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) to export Indian-grown bananas glo... 01/03/2013