Better targeted EU farm subsidies could help poor country farmers - study
Linking EU farm subsidies to goals such as environmental protection could help farmers in poor countries, a new study says - although much would depend on the size of the payments and how they are made.
The analysis, conducted by Professor Alan Matthews for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, shows that new proposals [...]
New Study Outlines How to Reconcile Trade and Climate Change Goals at COP16
Cancun, Mexico, 8 December 2010 - A new study launched today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP16), From Collision to Vision: Climate Change and World Trade, will form an integral part of today’s symposium organized by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Cancún, Mexico. In the study, the Working Group [...]
New trade safeguard only partially shields poor farmers, study finds
A controversial new tool to safeguard poor countries from surges in farm imports or price depressions would only provide partial protection to poor producers, a new study finds.
Exporting countries have repeatedly warned that the proposed ’special safeguard mechanism’ could block any growth in trade resulting from market opening under the WTO Doha Round of trade [...]
Food price spikes put the spotlight on the need for sustained commitment to agriculture
Barcelona, Spain – May 31, 2010 – Experts in the fields of agriculture and international trade analyzed the 2007-08 food price spikes and arrived at recommendations for policy responses to potential future spikes in agricultural prices during a seminar held by the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC), the International Centre for Trade [...]
Cotton dispute: Africans penalised by US foot-dragging, study finds
African farmers could have gained from a 3.5 percent average increase
in world cotton prices, if the US had moved quickly to implement the
recommendations of an international trade panel, a new study finds.
The study, commissioned by ICTSD and conducted by Mario Jales of Cornell
University, suggests that cotton prices would have risen over a
1998-2007 base period if [...]