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on Brazilian producers and exporters. The main goal of the paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of World Trade …
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The increased importance of environmental protection led to the introduction of sustainability-related criteria in standard-setting practices. A discomfort with the functioning, working methods and certain rigidities of the global standardizing bodies such as the ISO led to a mushrooming of a...
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resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop …, reducing the productivity of the world's fisheries, and placing pressure on scarce water resources. Furthermore, the climate … Agriculture Organization reports that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world reached a peak of 1.02 billion …
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Dividing the world in two groups of countries – developed and developing – remains deeply engrained. This bifurcation …
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This study reviews policy developments in recent years and, in the light of that, explores ways in which further consensus might be reached among WTO members to reduce farm trade distortions - and thereby also progress the multilateral trade reform agenda. Particular attention is given to ways...
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Climate variability affects the specialization and portfolio of production and trade in agricultural markets. Previous studies suggest that climate change has a negative impact on economic growth and production patterns, and in particular it significantly alters yields and commodity prices. This...
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This paper is one of a series of five outputs produced under the Food Security and Climate Change Initiative of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). It surveys the key trade issues in the ongoing negotiations addressing agriculture as a sectoral approach to mitigation...
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