Agricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries
2004
K. Anderson
This paper assesses the opportunities and challenges provided by the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda, particularly with regards to agricultural trade liberalisation and its impact on trade of low-income countries. Observations of the study include:consumers in developed countries are more concerned with food safety and the environment than with the price-raising effect of agricultural protection the political force for agricultural reform in developed countries therefore has to come from those countries' exporters of other industrial goods and of servicesdeveloping countries need to provide increased access to those producers' exports as a quid pro quotextile and clothing exporters have an indirect interest in seeing agricultural protection reductions in their own country as well as in the OECD, so that potential food-exporting countries can access those markets instead of competing with them by turning to manufacturingto maximise the gains from trade reform, however, developing countries need to have well-functioning domestic economiesin order to boost food security, countries should consider improvements in land tenure and more investment in the stocks of primary factors used in food production: agricultural research rural human capital, and rural infrastructurebetter clarifying and enforcing land rights, also boosts food security.
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