Trade Liberalisation Policies, Intra-Regional Trade and Opportunities for Sustainable Agricultural Development‪.‬

1. INTRODUCTION Many of the Near East (NE) countries are currently opening their agricultural markets at three distinct but interacting levels: unilateral liberalisation, regional integration schemes and multilateral trade liberalisation. These changes hold important implications for intra- and extra-regional trade, use of agricultural resources and sustainability of agricultural development in the NE countries.