Tackling Agriculture in the Post-Bali Context

At the ninth WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali, Ministers agreed to prepare a “clearly defined” work programme on the remaining Doha Development Agenda issues. However, the global agricultural trade landscape has evolved significantly since negotiations froze in 2008 – and even more so since Doha was launched in 2001. As WTO Members start crafting the contours of a possible post-Bali agenda, developing a sound understanding of this new global reality and its implications for future multilateral disciplines in agriculture is critical.

This volume builds on the most recent analysis of global trends and domestic policy reforms to inform negotiations on a post-Bali agricultural trade agenda. It features a series of concise, nontechnical and solution-oriented papers by leading experts and thinkers, covering systematically all elements of the agricultural negotiations on market access, domestic support and export competition. By making this compilation widely available to policy makers and analysts, the editors intend to make a constructive and policy-relevant contribution to the debate over the shape of a possible post-Bali work programme.