Boxing Match in Agricultural Trade
- Publisher:
- Oxfam
- Publication Date:
- 19 November 2002
- Tags:
- Environment, Food and Agriculture, Trade
Will WTO Negotiations Knock Out The World's Poorest Farmers? Briefing Paper #32 Agricultural trade could play a key role in the fight against poverty. But in practice the rules which govern world agricultural trade benefit the rich rather than the poor. Rich countries spend vast sums of money protecting the interests of their producers, while at the same time forcing poor countries to open their markets to subsidised imports.
