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03-Nov-2006
A successful outcome from the currently suspended Doha Development Round of WTO trade negotiations is still possible, according to experts meeting in Buenos Aires on 10 -11 October 2006, but agriculture remains a key issue of difficulty.
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21-Jun-2006
Government support to farmers in OECD countries totalled € 225 billion in 2005, representing 29% of farm receipts. The proportion is unchanged from the previous year and only marginally lower than the 30% reported in 2003, according to a new OECD study.
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14-Jun-2006
A just released report shows that a simultaneous reform involving a halving of trade protection and domestic support across all sectors could potentially generate USD 44 billion in welfare gains globally. Most of these gains arise from agricultural reform and most of these agricultural gains come from reform of market access measures.
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10-Feb-2006
The principal objective of the present study is to look at the economics of biofuel production and the likely impacts of an expected growth in biofuel-related demand for agricultural products on commodity markets.
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10-Feb-2006
Les questions principales traitées dans ce rapport sont les caractéristiques économiques de la production de biocarburants et les impacts probables d’une croissance attendue de la demande en produits agricoles liée aux biocarburants sur les marchés des produits. Rassemblant l’information disponible et sur la base d’hypothèses pour l’information non disponible sur les technologies de production, les coûts et les mesures politiques dans les plus gros pays producteurs de biocarburants, la présente étude décrit les caractéristiques économiques et politiques des marchés des biocarburants.
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06-Apr-2005
Preference erosion has become an important issue in the current WTO trade negotiations as developing countries are concerned that multilateral tariff reductions will harm their agricultural sectors. The findings in this report suggest that although this may indeed be a problem for some countries in some sectors, factors other than preferential schemes may be limiting developing country exports.
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16-Feb-2005
In the context of OECD work on policy reform for commodities that receive very high support and protection, assessments are provided of the market, trade and welfare impacts of milk quota systems and of international dairy trade liberalisation.
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