Development needs development opportunities!

„A human development-oriented trade regime should give governments the space to design policies, that take into account the national development needs and it‘s social, ecological and economic situation“. (see UNDP, Making global trade work for people, 2003)

Please find below some analysis on trade, environment and development issues with a special focus on agriculture. The articles deal with WTO, free trade agreements, Common Agricultural Policy, agrobusiness and supply chains.

                                                                                 Enjoy reading! Marita Wiggerthale

Articles and comments:

Impact of Europe's Dairy Export Subsidies in Bangladesh (PPT in NGO Centre, 7th WTO Ministerial Conference; 1st December 2009)

To checkout, Please! The new propensity to consume and booming markets in India: What can happen, if supermarket chains expand rapidly after liberalization of the retail sector.

Last Stop – Supermarket: The Scoop on Tropical Fruit. Retailers’ Buying Power: The conditions under which pineapples and bananas sold in Germany are produced (a study commissioned by Oxfam Germany, January 2008 )

Supermarket expansion - a threat to small farmers? (study commissioned by Church Development Services, May 2007)

Le lobby de l'agrobusiness à Bruxelles (Campagnes Solidaires, No. 210, Septembre 2006)

The agribusiness lobby in Brussels (April 2006)

What needs to be done to make Doha a Development Round? (PPP at ATDN-meeting in Berlin, 03/06)

Neglected right to create a future without poverty - An analysis of the outcome of the ministerial conference in Hong Kong (Mijarc News 1/2006)

The Trade Agenda of the European Agribusiness. The interests of the food sector in current WTO agriculture negotiations (published by WEED and AbL, translated by CCFD, France, November 2005)

La politique commerciale sous la férule de l'industrie agroalimentaire. Les intérêts du secteur agro-alimentaire
dans les négociations agricoles en cours à l'OMC (publié par WEED et AbL, traduit par CCFD, France, Novembre 2005)

What is at stake in Hong Kong? -prospects for development and environment at the 6th WTO ministerial (Global Issues Paper, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, November 2005)

What's wrong with EU agricultural subsidies? (July 2005)

Negotiating Global Trade in Agriculture (African Technology Development  Forum, ATDF Journal Volume 2, Issue 1)

Liberalisation of Agricultural Trade - The Way Forward for Sustainable Development? (Global Issue Papers of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, November 2004): Chapter I: Food security and agriculture trade in the WTO context: an introduction, Chapter II: Development instead of Free Trade: Time for a turn around (an analysis of three years of agriculture trade negotiations and the July package)

Comparison of the July texts of the WTO agriculture negotiations (synopsis)

Comparison of agriculture framework proposals August 2003-2004 (synopsis)

Safeguard instruments within the WTO: a development policy analysis (April 2004)

European agri-environmental policy in the context of the WTO (March 2004)

Dumping in the agricultural sector: an introduction (April 2004)

The WTO agrarian negotiations and nature conservation (Oktober 2003)