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USDA Crop Reports Summary: August 2015
BY: Joseph Glauber, IFPRI
The grains and oilseeds futures markets were down significantly following the release of USDA's August Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports.
2014 Farm Bill and 2015 WTO Doha Round Negotiations
This article is reposted with permission from farmdoc daily and is part of a farmdoc daily series on the 2014 farm bill and U.S. commitments on farm supports under the World Trade Organization (WTO). Costs and WTO notifications for crop insurance and some WTO terms used in this article (Aggregate Measurement of Support (AMS), Current Total AMS (CTAMS), de minimis thresholds, and green box) are discussed in farmdoc daily July 30, 2015 . Information on the 2008 Doha farm support proposals are from the WTO negotiating document .
Macroeconomic Policies and Food Security: Focus Must Extend Beyond Trade
Additional macroeconomic variables besides trade have a role in achieving food security objectives, and history shows that excluding them from the equation can lead to ineffective or counter-productive policymaking.
Why developing countries should stop discriminating against agriculture
The following post by former International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) senior researcher Alberto Valdés is part of an ongoing series of blog stories celebrating IFPRI’s 40th anniversary .
U.S. Crop Insurance Fiscal Costs and WTO Notifications Under Current Rules
This article is reposted with permission from farmdoc daily and is part of a farmdoc daily series on the implications of the 2014 farm bill for (1) U.S. commitments on farm subsidies under the current World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture and (2) current attempts to revitalize the Doha Round negotiations for new WTO trade rules.