Agriculture in the GATT

Josling, Tim; Tangermann, Stefan; Warley, T. K.

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“…The other major factors explaining the evolution of EU agricultural and rural policy have been the development of agricultural markets inside the EU and outside, the budgetary costs of maintaining this commonly financed policy, and the pressures on the EU via international trade liberalisation negotiations under GATT and now the WTO. This evolution is well documented, on the trade aspects see Josling, Tangermann and Warley (1996).…”

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Desarrollo rural en la UE

Buckwell

2011

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SUMMARY:This article analyses the evolution of European rural regional economies and the Community's public regional policies, with a view to drawing lessons for other areas of the world, especially Latin America. After presenting relative size data for the EU regions based on population, territory, employment and income, the article analyses the key economic and social trends in these areas, together with the underlying explanatory factors. The main conclusion is that the economic development of the rural regions of the EU is much more due to the overall national economic development issues, than to rural development policies. Therefore, the way to achieve rural development is by means of a good overall economic development policy, and national policies are more determining than EU-wide policies in the overall economic development of the EU member states. The article finishes with a summary of the lessons to be learnt from EU rural development policy, which suggest the need for radical policy change based on a reduction in the agricultural component coupled with an increase in the territorial and environmental components.KEYWORDS: Economic development of rural areas. Overall economic development and EU rural development policy. 1 This paper has been adapted from a background paper prepared for a conference on Rural Development organised by the Inter-American Development Bank held in July 2005. Desarrollo rural en la UE RESUMEN: Este artículo analiza la evolución de la economía regional rural europea y las políticas regionales públicas comunitarias, con el fin de aportar lecciones a otras áreas del mundo, especialmente Latinoamérica. Después de presentar datos relativos al tamaño de población, territorio, empleo e ingresos de las regiones europeas, el artículo analiza las tendencias clave económicas y sociales de estas áreas, junto con los factores explicativos. La principal conclusión es que el desarrollo económico de las regiones rurales de la UE es mayor debido en mayor medida a el desarrollo económico nacional que a las políticas de desarrollo rural. Además, la vía para conseguir desarrollo rural es a través de buenas políticas de desarrollo económico generales. El artículo finaliza con un resume de los aspectos a aprender de la política de desarrollo rural de la UE, sugiriendo la necesidad de un cambio radical de esta basándose en la reducción del componente agrícola unido a un incremento de los componentes territoriales y ambientales.PALABRAS CLAVE: Economía de las áreas de desarrollo rural. Desarrollo económico general y polí-tica de desarrollo rural en EU.

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2011

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“…The EEC proposed the measuring and binding of all support to agriculture (i.e., montant de soutien), whereas the US pressed for major agricultural tariffs reductions (Josling at al., 1996: 62-66).…”

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“…While the ITO was intended to cover both the agricultural and industrial sectors and included extensive rules for each, the GATT included few rules on agriculture and in practice, due to the extensive use of exemptions, largely excluded agriculture from international trade disciplines (GATT, 1961a;Trebilcock and Howse, 2005). A key difference was that GATT 1948 did not include ICAs, which had been a central part of the ITO's mandate to coordinate world agricultural supply and trade (Josling et al, 1996). This omission is significant for understanding how the relationship between trade and food security was envisaged because a key objective of the Havana Charter had been to make foodstuffs available at below market prices through ICAs.…”

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The Forgotten History of Food Security in Multilateral Trade Negotiations

Margulis

2016

World Trade Review

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Food security emerged as a major source of political deadlock in the WTO Doha Round negotiations. Concerns about food security only intensified at the WTO following the 2008Global Food Crisis, with the Bali and Nairobi Ministerials revealing polarized views between the US and India on the financing of public food stockholding. These "food fights" at the WTO have attracted significant international media, civil society and scholarly attention. In this article, Iargue that inter-state disagreement on food security is not new or specific to the Doha Round but instead has been a recurrent phenomenon in the multilateral trade system for decades. Employing an historical approach, I show that food security has repeatedly been an item of negotiation in successive GATT negotiating rounds and has been steadily codified in international trade law over time. Today, food security is deeply integrated into the rules of the trade regime, making the WTO an important yet largely unacknowledged institution in global food security governance.1 I am thankful to the two anonymous reviewers, the editor, Kristen Hopewell, William Coleman, Tony Porter and Robert O'Brien for helpful comments. All errors remain my own.

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“…By the mid-1980s, world agricultural trade was in a state of disarray due to the prevalence of production and trade distorting policies in a number of countries (Johnson, 1973;Tyers and Anderson, 1992;Josling, et al, 1996;Hathaway, 1997). This was an era of 'cheap food' and structural surpluses were disposed off, inter alia, through export subsidies and food aid.…”

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Trade Policy Responses to Food Price Volatility in Poor Net Food-Importing Countries

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2012

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Agriculture in the GATT

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Desarrollo rural en la UE

The Forgotten History of Food Security in Multilateral Trade Negotiations

Trade Policy Responses to Food Price Volatility in Poor Net Food-Importing Countries

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