New pesticide regulations raise concerns for future of smallholders A Dominican Republic press article in April has reported comments from a COLEACP (the ACP-EU horticultural network) advisor during a visit to the c... 10/06/2011
Jamaican agricultural trade policy reviewed under WTO TPR process According to the WTO Secretariat’s latest trade policy review of the country, Jamaica remains ‘a net importer of agricultural products’ with agricu... 03/04/2011
Agricultural market access remains at heart of WTO deal At the WTO in mid February 2011, ‘Brazil has proposed that market-opening for key farm products such as beef, pork and poultry should go beyond lev... 03/04/2011
Cotton and the reassertion of ACP concerns in the Doha process The ACP group has called for an ‘immediate’ resumption of negotiations on cotton subsidies at the WTO, castigating the US for maintaining support m... 01/03/2011
Little progress in first weeks of 2011 According to press reports, little progress is being made in the WTO agricultural negotiations on the biggest sticking-point – ‘deep differences be... 01/03/2011
The WTO negotiations and food security, price volatility and trade A paper on ‘Food security, price volatility and trade’ and their impact on developing countries has been posted by ICTSD. A major focus of the pape... 01/03/2011
Caribbean: WTO reviews Belize's trade policy The review of Belize’s trade policy carried out by the WTO Secretariat notes that ‘agriculture is a major part of Belize’s economy’, representing ‘... 03/02/2011
West Africa: Regional integration and agricultural trade policy As part of its Trade Policy Review of Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali, the WTO Secretariat has reviewed the regional agricultural trade policy framewo... 03/02/2011
Negotiations relaunched but not necessarily re-energised At the beginning of December 2010, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy announced the commitment of WTO members to concluding the negotiations by the e... 25/12/2010
DRC’s extensive import controls fail to protect agriculture According to the latest WTO Trade Policy Review for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), agricultural imports are subject to a multitude of levi... 25/12/2010