This policy dialogue, which is being organised jointly by ICTSD and FAO, will seek to explore the relationship between farm policy reforms and the future of the multilateral trading system, looking in particular at the evolution of agricultural trade policy in major economies since the start of the WTO’s Doha Round, and the implications of anticipated policy trajectories in the future. It will therefore draw in particular on research and analysis on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy in the EU, the likely implications of the new US Farm Bill, and ongoing discussions about agricultural trade policy trajectories in Brazil, China, India and Russia. As policy-makers and trade negotiators seek to assess options for the post-Bali trading system, this dialogue will provide an opportunity for a range of policy actors to discuss informally how agricultural trade policy can best support global public policy objectives, including poverty reduction, food security and environmental sustainability.
Please contact agricultureprogramme@ictsd.ch to register.
Draft agenda: online here.
Date: 24 September 2013, 9:00-18:00
Venue: Room S3, Centre William Rappard (WTO main building), Geneva
Documentation:
1. The evolving agricultural trade policy landscape:
Do Yesterday’s Disciplines Fit Today’s Farm Trade?
by Jean-Christophe Bureau and Sébastien Jean, June 2013
2. Country studies: US, EU, Russia, India, China, Brazil:
US:
Potential Impact of Proposed 2012 Farm Bill Commodity Programs on Developing Countries
by Bruce Babcock and Nick Paulson, Oct 2012
The 2012 US Farm Bill and Cotton Subsidies:
An assessment of the Stacked Income Protection Plan
by Harry de Gorter, December 2012
US Farm Policy and Risk Assistance
The Competing Senate and House Agriculture Committee Bills of July 2012
by Carl Zulauf and David Orden, Sept 2012
EU:
Post-2013 EU Common Agricultural Policy, Trade and Development: A Review of Legislative Proposals
by Alan Matthews, October 2011
Risk Management and the Future of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy
by Stefan Tangermann, June 2011
Russia:
Possible Effects of Russia’s WTO Accession on Agricultural Trade and Production
by Sergey Kiselev, Roman Romashkin, April 2012
India:
India’s Agricultural Trade Policy and Sustainable Development Goals
by Anwarul Hoda and Ashok Gulati, September 2013
China:
Agricultural Domestic Support and Sustainable Development in China
by Ni Hongxing, May 2013
Brazil:
(DRAFT): Impacts of low carbon agriculture
by Marcelo Marques de Magalhaes (forthcoming)
(DRAFT): Domestic support of agriculture in Brazil
by Izaias de Carvalho Borges (forthcoming)
3. Other relevant research and analysis:
Integrating smallholders:
Smallholder integration in changing food markets
By Pedro Arias, David Hallam, Ekaterina Krivonos and Jamie Morrison; FAO.
Price volatility:
Trade Policy Responses to Food Price Volatility in Poor Net Food-Importing Countries
by Panos Konandreas, June 2012. ICTSD and FAO.
Net Food-Importing Developing Countries: Who They Are, and Policy Options for Global Price Volatility
by Alberto Valdés, William Foster, August 2012
Policy Solutions to Agricultural Market Volatility: A synthesis
by Stefan Tangermann, June 2011
Biofuels:
Global Biofuel Trade: How Uncoordinated Biofuel Policy Fuels Resource Use and GHG Emissions
by Seth Meyer, Josef Schmidhuber and Jesús Barreiro-Hurlé, May 2013. ICTSD and FAO.
The Impact of US Biofuel Policies on Agricultural Price Levels and Volatility
by Bruce A. Babcock, Issue Paper no. 35, June 2011
Agricultural export restrictions:
(DRAFT): Agricultural export restrictions: what options do policy-makers have for promoting food security?
by Giovanni Anania (forthcoming)