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Briefing paper

Finding the Moral Fiber: Why reform is urgently needed for a fair cotton trade

18/10/2004

2 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

Cotton has been at the top of the WTO’s agenda for the past two years. However, little has changed so far for small-scale cotton producers in West Africa, who will not survive another major slump in cotton prices. In July 2004, WTO members committed to ambitious and expeditious cotton subsidy reforms. To give African producers […]

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Briefing paper

Dumping: The Beginning of the End? Implications of the ruling in the Brazil/US cotton dispute

05/08/2004

4 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

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Overview

Despite their WTO commitments to reduce trade-distorting subsidies, the European Union and the United States have used loopholes and creative accounting to continue dumping products on world markets. In the case of US cotton subsidies, the dispute settlement body of the WTO concluded that such practices hurt developing countries and are in violation of WTO […]

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Briefing paper

The Rural Poverty Trap: Why agricultural trade rules need to change and what UNCTAD XI could do about it

11/06/2004

4 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

Many developing countries are stagnating or growing poorer, including their farmers, who comprise two-thirds of the world’s poor. Many of the reasons for this lie in systems of agricultural trade, including the rules of the WTO, the unfair trade policies of rich countries, and falling prices on international commodity markets. Oxfam recommends policy reforms to […]

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Briefing note

EuroMed: Seeds of a raw deal

01/06/2004

3 documents

6 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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Overview

In December 2003, the Ministers of the European Union (EU) and Arab Mediterranean countries agreed to speed up talks to achieve a higher level of progressive and reciprocal liberalisation of agricultural trade across both shores of the Mediterranean.

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Briefing paper

Dumping on the World: How EU sugar policies hurt poor countries

01/03/2004

2 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

European Union (EU) sugar policies hamper global efforts to reduce poverty. Export subsidies are used to dump 5 million tonnes of surplus sugar annually on world markets, destroying opportunities for exporters in developing countries. Meanwhile, producers in Africa have limited access to EU markets. The winners from the CAP sugar regime are big farmers and […]

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Briefing note

Make Poverty History: The role of the Network of Regional Governments for Sustainable Development (NRG4SD) in meeting the Millennium Development Goals

01/03/2004

4 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Welsh

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Overview

In September 2000, 189 UN member states signed the Millennium Development Declaration, pledging to halve global poverty by 2015. To date, many governments have broken their promises by failing to take the action needed to meet the agreed goals. With ten years to go, 2005 must see a step-change in commitments from governments in both […]

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Briefing paper

White Gold Turns to Dust: Which way forward for cotton in West Africa?

01/03/2004

2 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

West African farmers continue to face severe deprivation because of depressed cotton prices. One factor is the dumping of exports from the USA, where overproduction is the result of government handouts worth $2.3bn. The US government shamefully disregarded the Africans when they took their complaint to the WTO, but the issue remains high on the […]

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Book

Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

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Campaign report

Beyond the Headlines: An agenda for action to protect civilians in neglected conflicts

03/11/2003

3 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Since the atrocities of September 11th 2001, the leaders of the major international powers have been focused upon confronting what they perceive as the greatest threat to world security: the combination of weapons of mass destruction and international terrorism. At the 2003 G8 summit in France, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, […]

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Briefing paper

Iraq: Humanitarian-Military relations

01/03/2003

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

Humanitarian aid is most effectively delivered by civilian humanitarian agencies under UN leadership. Military involvement can compromise the effective delivery of aid and lead to unintended consequences, potentially threatening the security of civilian aid workers.

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