Agricultural issues will be high on the agenda of the WTO Ministerial meeting in Hong Kong, in December this year. In order to unravel the complicated global picture, Aprodev asked the well-known Indian journalist and researcher Devinder Sharma to write a report describing and analysing the effects of international and national agricultural policies under the present regime. From this, important lessons could be learnt for necessary steps to be taken in the future.
In compiling this report, Devinder Sharma worked with a team of four other researchers, Dr. T.N. Prakash, Mr. Bhaskar Goswami, Mr. Raghav Narsalay and Ms Abigail Dymond. Devinder Sharma was not asked to reflect the position of Aprodev and its member organisations but to write his report from the perspective of somebody who lives and works in the South. The result is an, at times, provocative analysis which will hopefully stimulate debate about the serious issues which are at stake.
On the basis of, and in order to complement this analysis, the Aprodev Working Group on European Union Trade and Food Security policies from a gender perspective, wrote a paper expressing its views on the main issues at stake in the present WTO negotiations on agricultural issues. This paper is included as an annex in this publication.
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