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No. 63 Agricultural Outlook 2025–2034: Medium-term prospects for global agricultural commodity markets
27/03/2026
The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2025–2034 presents a ten-year baseline scenario for global agricultural and fish markets, highlighting expected developments...
No. 57 Trade in fisheries and aquaculture products: Global markets, production, and food security
27/03/2026
International trade in fisheries and aquaculture products plays a critical role in global food security, employment and income generation, with aquatic...
No. 61 The dynamic impact of global shipping costs on the food import bill
27/03/2026
Maritime transportation is essential for countries to access basic goods in global markets and to support food security and nutrition, as almost one-quarter...
No. 62 Trade and Nutrition: Association and policy approaches
27/03/2026
Trade is fundamental to agrifood systems, connecting surplus and deficit regions and supporting a more reliable supply of safe, diverse and sufficient...
Publications
No. 9 A special safeguard mechanism for developing countries
06/09/2005
The July 2004 WTO Framework Agreement foresees a Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM), to protect against depressed import prices and import surges for agricultural products, that is available to all developing countries. The SSM would in principle be applicable to all products. However, limits on the number of products for which a country can simultaneously apply additional duty under the SSM could be applied to prevent abuse
No. 7 Non-reciprocal agricultural trade preferences
05/07/2005
Access for developing country exports to developed country markets on preferential terms has been a long standing component of multilateral trading arrangements.
No. 1 Cotton: impact of support policies on developing countries - why do the numbers vary?
15/07/2003
Subsidies maintain cotton production at otherwise unprofitable levels in industrialized countries Excess supply induced by domestic subsidies has a depressing effect on the world market price Subsidy reductions will reduce poverty in developing producing countries Estimates of the magnitude of the impact of subsidies on the global pattern of cotton production, world market prices and cotton trade vary due to the range of assumptions used by different studies