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?

This research paper by the International Institute for Sustainable Development analyzes the state of agricultural negotiations ahead of the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC14). It identifies persistent deadlocks regarding domestic support, public food stocks, and market access, while highlighting three specific areas where Least Developed Countries (LDCs) could achieve tangible progress: reducing cotton subsidies, improving market access for cotton products, and securing exemptions from export restrictions.

• The WTO agricultural negotiations are characterized by long-standing disagreements over domestic support, public food stock programs for food security in developing countries, and market access for agricultural products.
• Developing countries argue that the current methodology for calculating market price support is obsolete because it relies on a reference price from 1986-1988, which fails to account for inflation and artificially inflates reported aid levels.
• LDCs face a persistent 'tariff escalation' in the cotton sector, where processed goods like cotton fabrics and yarns are subject to higher tariffs than raw cotton, hindering industrial modernization and diversification.
• High levels of trade-distorting domestic support from a small number of major producers depress global cotton prices, reducing the farm-gate prices and incomes for LDC cotton exporters.
• 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 gradual elimination of all trade-distorting domestic support.
• LDCs are particularly vulnerable to export restrictions on food and agricultural products; an exemption for LDCs would complement the MC12 decision to exempt World Food Programme humanitarian purchases.
• There is a growing trend of using trade agreements to promote sustainable agriculture, with OECD members implementing 130 trade-related measures for sustainable agriculture between 1997 and 2024, nearly 60% of which were adopted in the last seven years.
• The WTO Dialogue on Sustainable Agriculture, initiated by Brazil and supported by China and Switzerland, 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} }