Webinar | WTO agriculture negotiations on domestic support: making new rules work for LDCs

This webinar brought insights from the research community to WTO delegates on how to advance the negotiations on domestic support ahead of MC14 in Cameroon and how WTO rules on domestic support could benefit LDCs and other vulnerable economies.

As WTO members resume agriculture negotiations after MC13, IISD and IFPRI organized a webinar to bring insights from the research community on: (i) how to advance the negotiations on domestic support ahead of MC14 in Cameroon; and (ii) how WTO rules on domestic support could benefit LDCs and other vulnerable economies.

During the webinar, agriculture experts dissected the most recent proposals on domestic support by the African Group and Pakistan, the Cairns Group and Ukraine, and India to identify: (i) areas of possible convergence on domestic support ahead of MC14 in Cameroon; and (ii) how new WTO rules on domestic support could be designed to be of most benefit to LDCs and other vulnerable economies.