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Domestic farm support programs in developed countries: Provisions of Agreement on Agriculture

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Article Overview: A basic source of distortion in the world market for agricultural commodities and primary products has been the differential level of domestic support that developed and developing countries can give to the production of these commodities. This has tended to reduce the price competitiveness of developing countries.

Domestic farm support programs in developed countries: Provisions of Agreement on Agriculture

A basic source of distortion in the world market for agricultural commodities and primary
products has been the differential level of domestic support that developed and developing
countries can give to the production of these commodities. This has tended to reduce the
price competitiveness of developing countries. Thus, the WTO provides for a commitment
by each developed country to reduce its domestic support measures in favour of agricultural
products. However, for developing countries, government measures of assistance, whether
direct or indirect, to encourage agricultural and rural development are regarded as an
integral part of their development programs. Hence, the WTO provides that investment and
agricultural input subsides (e.g. fertilizer) which are generally provided to low-income or
resources-poor producers in developing countries shall be exempted from domestic support
reduction commitments that would otherwise be applicable to such measures in developed
countries. This is contained in Article 6 of the Agreement on Agriculture.

African Development Bank
Economic Research Working Paper Series
Enhancing Africa’s Trade: From Marginalization
to an Export-Led Approach to Development
Milton A. Iyoha
Professor, Department of Economics & Statistics
University of Benin, Nigeria
Economic Research Working Paper
No 77 (August 2005)

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