Report proposes way forward on domestic support in WTO ag talks

World Trade Organization negotiators should address agricultural domestic support by imposing new limits that are tied to output, capping product-specific support, providing some flexibility for developing countries and allowing countries to exempt public stockholding programs, a new report proposed this week. The report – published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, a Canadian think tank, and the International Food Policy Research Institute, a U.S.-based organization – argues that the disciplines on domestic support negotiated at the start of the...