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22 November 2018
WTO members are debating how to resolve long-standing disagreements over agricultural export restrictions and their impact on humanitarian food aid, sources told Bridges, with the issue taking centre stage during an informal meeting convened on 15 November by the chair of the organisation’s...
14 November 2018
There is a need to introduce some flexibility into global trade policies and institutions given the current trade tensions, anti-globalisation sentiments, and the large number of countries that participate in WTO negotiations. Large food net importers and large food net exporters have common and...
5 October 2018
Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) and smart contracts can be a key component of trade facilitation, bringing greater transparency, accountability, efficiency, and traceability to the exchange of value and information in agricultural supply chains. These technologies have the potential to...
27 September 2018
The WTO’s agriculture negotiations resumed last week after the organisation’s annual August hiatus. While the discussions were mainly limited to reviewing negotiating submissions, analysis, and data, some sources indicated that the level of engagement seemed noticeably improved from recent meetings...
21 June 2018
Officials from India and the US engaged in intense debate at the WTO last week over whether New Delhi’s farm subsidies for wheat and rice are “vastly in excess” of the figures that the South Asian economy has reported to the organisation. The debate came following a formal submission from...
7 June 2018
The European Commission unveiled a set of legislative proposals on 1 June that would cut farm subsidies to European agriculture in the bloc’s next 7-year financial framework, while also granting member states greater authority over how support is allocated. The €365 billion legislative proposals...
31 May 2018
The World Trade Organization’s negotiating body on agriculture met informally on 24 May for the first time since the organisation’s eleventh ministerial conference in Buenos Aires last December, against a backdrop of ongoing trade tensions and continuing disagreement over the focus of the talks...
26 April 2018
The US House of Representatives is set to consider legislation for a new Farm Bill authorising farm subsidy and domestic food aid spending for the next five years, after the bill passed out of the House Agriculture Committee on 18 April. The US Farm Bill is the omnibus legislation governing...
25 January 2018
Agriculture ministers from nearly 70 countries called for a “more sustainable, more responsible, and more efficient” global livestock sector at a meeting on Saturday 20 January in Berlin, Germany, examining the issue through the lenses of trade, food security, and climate action. A communiqué from...