Negociaciones sobre las Agricultura en la 14ª Conferencia Ministerial de la Organización Mundial del Comercio ¿Cuál es la situación actual y en qué aspectos pueden avanzar los países menos adelantados?

The document analyzes the deadlock in WTO agricultural negotiations regarding domestic support, public stockholding, and market access, while proposing three priority areas for Least Developed Countries (LDCs): reducing cotton subsidies, improving market access for cotton products, and securing exemptions from export restrictions.

• WTO agricultural negotiations are characterized by long-standing disagreements over domestic support, public stockholding for food security at administered prices, and market access for agricultural products.
• Developing countries argue that the 1986-1988 reference price used to calculate market price support is obsolete and fails to account for inflation, which artificially inflates reported aid levels and restricts food security programs.
• LDCs face a persistent tariff escalation in the cotton sector, where cotton fabrics and yarns are subject to higher tariffs than raw cotton, hindering industrial modernization and value addition.
• High levels of trade-distorting domestic support from a few major producers depress global cotton prices, reducing the farm-gate prices and incomes for LDC exporters.
• The document proposes that LDCs be exempted from export restrictions on food and agricultural products to protect them from global price spikes, noting that LDCs have a small share of world food trade.
• In November 2025, the Trade Ministers of Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Côte d'Ivoire issued the Bamako Ministerial Declaration on Cotton, calling for the progressive elimination of all trade-distorting domestic support.
• There is a growing trend of using trade agreements to promote sustainable agriculture; OECD members implemented 130 trade-related measures for sustainable agriculture between 1997 and 2024, with nearly 60% adopted in the last seven years.
• The WTO Dialogue on Sustainable Agriculture, initiated by Brazil and supported by Switzerland and China, serves as an informal space to explore how trade policy interacts with sustainability goals without establishing binding rules.

APA

Calvo, F. (n.d.). Negociaciones sobre las Agricultura en la 14ª Conferencia Ministerial de la Organización Mundial del Comercio ¿Cuál es la situación actual y en qué aspectos pueden avanzar los países menos adelantados? International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/es/articles/policy-analysis/wto-mc14-agriculture-negotiations-ldcs

Chicago

Calvo, Facundo. Negociaciones sobre las Agricultura en la 14ª Conferencia Ministerial de la Organización Mundial del Comercio ¿Cuál es la situación actual y en qué aspectos pueden avanzar los países menos adelantados? International Institute for Sustainable Development, n.d. https://www.iisd.org/es/articles/policy-analysis/wto-mc14-agriculture-negotiations-ldcs.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{calvondnegociaciones, author = {Calvo, Facundo}, title = {{Negociaciones sobre las Agricultura en la 14ª Conferencia Ministerial de la Organización Mundial del Comercio ¿Cuál es la situación actual y en qué aspectos pueden avanzar los países menos adelantados?}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, url = {https://www.iisd.org/es/articles/policy-analysis/wto-mc14-agriculture-negotiations-ldcs}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }