WTO ag director: Public stockholding, linkages complicate MC13 talks

ABU DHABI -- The most important agricultural issue for ministers to resolve at the World Trade Organization’s 13th ministerial involves how to address public stockholding for food security -- a longstanding debate that could hold up progress in other areas and, ultimately, prevent the adoption of an agricultural outcome, a key WTO official said on Monday. At the outset of the ministerial here, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said she was “ cautiously optimistic ” that members would be able to...