Agricultural+Subsidies

(1) TOPIC GUIDES
//Below you will find links to the topics that will be discussed in the WTO// [|Agricultural Subsidies.pdf]

(2) VIDEO GUIDES
Click [|here] to access Oxfam's //Reform the 2007 Farm Bill// Click [|here] to access //Stossel in the Classroom's Farm Subsidies// Click [|here] to access //BBC Agricultural Subsidies by European Union to APAC// Click [|here] to access //Farm Subsidy Interview with EWG//

(3) LINKS TO NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs)
[|The Environmental Working Group] [|Institute for Food and Development Policy] [|The Council on Foreign Relations] [|The American Farm Bureau]

(4) PRIMARY SOURCES
WTO's [|Agreement on Agriculture] [|The Cairns Group] EU's [|Common Agricultural Policy] [|US Farm Subsidies]

(5) TAKE ACTION
[|Greater Boston Food Bank] [|Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation] [|Oxfam America]

Angola
To see Angola's agricultural country profile, click [|here] To read about agricultural development in Angola, click [|here]

Argentina
To read about Argentina's economy and its efforts to combat US farm subsidies, click [|here] To read more about Argentina's agriculture, click [|here]

Bangladesh
To read about Bangladesh's small, indirect subsidy program, click [|here] To read about the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation, click [|here]

Belgium
To read Belgium's general position on agricultural subsidies, click [|here] To read about the EU's Common Agricultural Policy's farm subsidies, click [|here]

Bosnia and Herzegovina
To read about difficulties faced by Bosnia's farmers, click [|here]

Brazil
To read about Brazil's subsidy-free agriculture, click [|here] To read more about the Brazil-US trade dispute and its outcomes, click [|here] To read about Brazil's growing agricultural trade, click [|here]

Canada
To read about Canada's farmers, click [|here] To read about the US-Canadian trade dispute over subsidies, click [|here]

China
For a background on China's subsidies program, click [|here] To read about more Chinese subsidies to farmers, click [|here]

Cuba
To read about how Cuba is cutting its agricultural subsidies, click [|here]

Democratic Republic of the Congo
To read comments made by the President of the DR Congo about agricultural subsidies, click [|here]

France
To read about the EU's Common Agricultural Policy's farm subsidies, click [|here] To see France's fierce determination to defend its agricultural subsidies, click [|here] To read further about the importance of subsidies in French politics, click [|here]

Germany
To read about the EU's Common Agricultural Policy's farm subsidies, click [|here] To read about how Germany benefits from agricultural subsidies, click [|here] To understand the EU's position on the relationship between subsidies and food shortages, click [|here]

Hungary
To read about the EU's Common Agricultural Policy's farm subsidies, click [|here] To read about Hungarian trade disputes in the WTO, click [|here]

India
To read about India's efforts to reduce US and EU farm subsidies, click [|here] To understand why India is dropping some of its agricultural subsidies, click [|here]

Indonesia
To understand Indonesia's position on agricultural subsidies, click [|here]

Iraq
To read a background about Iraq's agricultural sector, click [|here] To read about Iraq's efforts to gain membership to the WTO and its liberalization of trade, click [|here]

Japan
To read a background on Japan's agricultural subsidies, click [|here]

Libya
To understand the Libyan perspective on the agricultural subsidies issue, click [|here]

Madagascar
To read about poverty in Madagascar, click [|here] To read about locust problems in Madagascar, click [|here]

Mexico
To read about some of the abuses of Mexico's subsidy system, click [|here] To read about recent increases in Mexican agricultural subsidies, click [|here]

Mozambique
To read about how EU agricultural subsidies are damaging for nations like Mozambique, click [|here]

Netherlands
To read about the EU's Common Agricultural Policy's farm subsidies, click [|here]

Nigeria
To read about Nigeria's flagging agricultural sector, click [|here] To read about a potential food crisis in Nigeria, click [|here]

Qatar
To read about agriculture in Qatar, click [|here]

Republic of Korea
To see the ROK's ranking compared to other agricultural subsidizers, click [|here] To read a background to the ROK's drive for food-independence, click [|here]

Russian Federation
To read about Russia's cuts in agricultural subsidies in its efforts to join the WTO, click [|here] To read about Russia's plans to increase agricultural subsidies following membership to the WTO, click [|here]

Saudi Arabia
To read how Saudi Arabia gave up its agricultural subsidy program, click [|here]

South Africa
To read how US and EU subsidies affect Africa, click [|here] To read more about EU subsidies and South Africa, click [|here]

Spain
To read about the EU's Common Agricultural Policy's farm subsidies, click [|here] To read about the importance of subsidies to Spanish agriculture, click [|here]

Uganda
To read about the effect of subsidies on Uganda's cotton farmers, click [|here]

United Kingdom
To read about the EU's Common Agricultural Policy's farm subsidies, click [|here] For an official breakdown of UK subsidies, click [|here] To understand the background of UK subsidies, click [|here] To read about possible reductions in UK subsidies, click [|here]

United States
To access a database of all US agricultural subsidies, click [|here] For an official breakdown of US subsidies, click [|here] To read about abuses of the US' subsidy program, click [|here] To read about the US-Brazil subsidy dispute, click [|here]

Venezuela
To read about Venezuela's opposition to agricultural subsidies, click [|here]

Yemen
To read about Yemen's struggling agricultural sector, click [|here]

Zimbabwe
To read statements made by President Mugabe on US and EU subsidies, click [|here] To read a background on Zimbabwe's agricultural sector, click [|here]