Developing members at the WTO are faced with shrinking policy space to support their agricultural sector owing to the … the Agreement on Agriculture and the practices of members. Further, it traces the genesis of Blue Box and members position … available in implementing Blue Box programmes to support agriculture …

With rising levels of food and livelihood insecurity among poor farmers, many developing members at the WTO are … demanding special safeguard mechanism (SSM) for shielding their agriculture from import surges and price declines. Most of … developing members do not have any trade instrument under the WTO to address it except by increasing the applied tariff to bound …

This study has critically examined the issue of Cotton subsidies in USA as well made a comparative analysis of cotton … sector between USA and India in the background of USA claim that African Cotton producers' plight was not due to the trade …-distorting subsidies of USA but was on account of upward trend in cotton production in India and China in defiance of market signals. This …

Agreement on Agriculture has altered the climate of farm policy making in both advanced and developing countries. Even though … changed and the foundation has been laid for further reforms, including during the next WTO Round. Having said that, it needs … manufactures. Hence much remains to be done before agricultural trade is as liberal as world trade in manufactures. But agriculture …