Agricultural Domestic Support Under the WTO

Lars Brink is independent advisor on agricultural support policies, and Fellow and former President of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society. He has held positions with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and was a representative in WTO and OECD meetings for many years. Governments, international organizations, academics and interest groups seek his advice. David Orden is Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a former Senior Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. He is an author/editor of five books including Policy Reform in American Agriculture (1999) and WTO Disciplines on Agricultural Support (2011).

• 1. Introduction; 2. Domestic support disciplines of the Agriculture and SCM Agreements; 3. Economic analysis of exemptions and administered prices; 4. Trends among different types of domestic support; 5. Transparency; 6. Issues under negotiation; 7. Disputes involving agricultural domestic support; 8. Addressing twenty-first century policy priorities; 9. Lessons from the experience; References; Index.

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