This week the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development published “Negotiating Global Rules on Agricultural Domestic Support: Options for the World Trade Organization’s Buenos Aires Ministerial Conference.” The paper looks to ideas presented at the WTO to evaluate potential methods for negotiating agricultural support, focusing on products of particular importance to low-income countries. It includes analysis of implications of several different methods for countries’ actual support levels, taking into account the maximum WTO permitted ceilings.

The paper is available for download here on the ICTSD website.