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Managing the Invisible Hand

Report examining the weaknesses of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture and how it will not succeed in helping farmers and economic development until it addresses the market power held by transnational corporations. The full report, Executive Summary and press release are below.

An Introduction to the Development Box

The Development Box proposal has been put forward by a number of developing country delegations at the WTO, and will be discussed at the Committee on Agriculture at its February 2002 meeting. This background briefing is produced by a number of NGOs that support the proposal.

Re: Public Comments on the Built-In Agenda at the WTO

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) is pleased to submit comments concerning the built-in agenda at the WTO. The comments below are focused specifically on the Agreement on Agriculture and TRIPs. A more general note on the WTO negotiations is provided by way of introduction.

Re: Public Comments on the Built-In Agenda at the WTO

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) submited comments to the U.S. Trade Representative concerning the built-in agenda at the WTO. The comments below are focused specifically on the Agreement on Agriculture and TRIPs. A more general note on the WTO negotiations is provided by way of introduction.

WTO Food and Agriculture Rules: Sustainable Agriculture and the Human RIght to Food

Published in the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, Winter 2000, Vol. 9, Issue 1. This paper was also a presentation given by Mark Ritchie at the International Cooperative Agricultural Organization General Assembly in Quebec City, Quebec on August 29, 1999. The focus of this paper is the the impact of agricultural export dumping by grain corporations based in the U.S.

Who Should Pay for the Costs of the StarLink Scandal?

The US is exporting a variety of genetically engineered corn that has not been approved for human consumption in the US. StarLink was grown in 1998 on about 10,000 acres in the US, some 250,000 acres in 1999, and more than 350,000 acres in 2000.

NAFTA Chapter 11 Methanex/U.S. Arbitration Sign-on Letter

Sign-on letter from NGO's in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. requesting support for participation of amici curiae (friends of the court) in the arbitration proceedings of the Methanex challenge to California's phase-out of MTBE.

Don't Trust Bush on Trade

WTO: What's at Stake?

Backgrounder on the WTO produced by IATP after the Seattle WTO Ministerial,

Down on the Farm with the WTO

Published in the Spring 2000 issue of the magazine Whole Earth and also in the Spring 2000 edition of the Whole Earth Catalog under the title "WTO Think-In". Agribusiness had long argued that the industrial model of agriculture was inevitable and there was no alternative to globalization and homogenization.