China’s evolving role in global agricultural trade Alongside the OECD-FAO report ‘Agricultural Outlook 2013-2022’, the OECD and FAO have published ‘Focus on China’, highlighting China’s growing role... 19/08/2013
Impact of CAP reform agreement on the sugar sector As part of the 26 June 2013 political agreement between the European Commission, European Parliament and EU Council, the abolition of EU sugar prod... 06/08/2013
Priority areas for cotton lobbying identified The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) has published an information note, ‘Cotton: Trends in global production, tra... 28/07/2013
Tate & Lyle Sugars argues for improved access to low-cost non-ACP cane sugar supplies In April 2013, with the cost of importing sugar into the EU from preferred countries at a 10-month high, Tate & Lyle Sugars (TLS) expressed con... 03/06/2013
Infrastructure is a key to agricultural trade in developing countries An OECD review of the constraints to developing country agricultural trade, published on 31 January 2013, concludes that “a 10% improvement in the... 15/04/2013
EU Council political agreement on extension of sugar production quotas until 2016/17 At the meeting of the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting on 18–19 March 2013, a political agreement was reached on proposed regulations f... 07/04/2013
Farmers face more barriers in Africa than elsewhere In a World Bank report on how Africa can increase its own food production, published in October 2012, the Bank’s Vice-President for Africa, Makhtar... 06/04/2013
EU introduces new Generalised System of Preferences At the end of October 2012, the European Commission issued a regulation that applied from 20 November 2012 and which will alter substantially the E... 02/02/2013
Position of ACP heads of state and governments on the EPA negotiations At the ACP Summit of heads of state and government held in Equatorial Guinea in December 2012, the final declaration, named the Sipopo Declaration,... 27/01/2013
Debate shifts towards extension of sugar production quotas According to a December 2012 press release from the International Confederation of European Beet Growers (CIBE), 14 EU member states at the 28 Nove... 21/01/2013