DEVELOPING COUNTRY AGRICULTURE AND THE NEW TRADE AGENDA Bernard Hoekman and Kym Anderson A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in late 1999. To what extent should those negotiations include socalled “new trade agenda” items aimed at ensuring that domestic regulatory policies do not discriminate against foreign suppliers...

Enabling Collective Action for Smallholder Market Access Discussions about poverty reduction inevitably include the need to increase small landholders’ ability to participate successfully in market exchanges. However, smallholders must be aware of new opportunities and challenges brought about by changes in the global agricultural economy. Prominent among these changes Enabling Collective Actio...