World Trade & Food

Latest news & documents

• Brochure: Devastating Floods - Man Made. European Trade Policy Violates Right to Food in Ghana - Chicken and Tomatoes (May 2008)
• Documentation of Conference (Berlin, Dec. 2007): African smallholders in focus - a voice in EU trade policy
• Study: Impact of EU’s agricultural trade policy on smallholders in Africa (Oct. 2007)

• Devastating Floods - Man Made. European Trade Policy Violates Right to Food in Ghana - Chicken and Tomatoes (May 2008)
• Project Flyer [PDF, 360 KB]
• Documentation of Conference (Berlin, Dec. 2007): African smallholders in focus - a voice in EU trade policy
• Study: Impact of EU’s agricultural trade policy on smallholders in Africa (Oct. 2007)

• Study: Impact of EU’s agricultural trade policy on smallholders in Africa (Oct. 2007)
• Study: A Closer Look at  EU Agricultural Subsidies (March 2006)
• Position Paper: Readjusting EU Agricultural Policy (March 2006)
• Flyer: Reorientation of the Common Agricultural Policy [PDF, 340KB]
• EU agri-environmental policies in the context of the WTO (1999/2004) [PDF, 350KB]
• Joint Statement: Transparency in European trade policy-making (Dez. 2003)
• Post-Cancun Reflections on Agriculture: Joint NGO Submission to the European Commission [PDF, 60KB]
• Marginalizing Developing Countries. Comments on the Mid-Term Review of the Common Agricultural Policy from a development point of view - Position Paper, as of 26 July 2002

• Study: Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries (June 2005)
• Workshop documentation: The WTO agrarian negotiations and nature conservation (Vilm, 2003)
• Post-Cancun Reflections on Agriculture: Joint NGO Submission to the European Commission [PDF, 60KB]
• Statement against an Agreement on Investment in the WTO
• Strategic products: a concept without teeth. Claims put forward to Stuart Harbinson by Germanwatch (March 2003)
• Open letter against expansion of the WTO agenda and reply by P.Lamy. Feb/March 2003
• Statement from an International Hearing on the WTO Agriculture Agreement (Feb. 2003)
• Securing Food - For a "Development Box" in the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. Position Paper by Germanwatch, FIAN Germany and the German National Association of Worldshops
• Reflections on the needs to reform the EU Common Agricultural Policy in the light of Development Countries Demands toward Agriculture in the WTO. For a Conversion of the Agricultural Protectionism. (June 2002) [PDF File, 80 k].

• Documentation "The Future of Sugar" (Dec 2005)
• Conference: The future of sugar, 17 Oct. 2006 [PDF, 180KB]
• Study: Impact of EU Sugar Trade on Developing Countries. A Study with Focus on East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda)
• Documentation "Preference Erosion in multilateral negotiations - the example of the European sugar sector" (Dec 2005)
• Documentation "The Future of Sugar" (Dec 2005)
• For a Reform of the Sugar Regime in the EU. Position of some German environmental, development and rural NGOs (June 2004) [PDF, 250KB]

• Demands on a Reform of the EC Dairy Market Regulation from the Perspective of Peasant Farmer Organisations in North and South (May 2005) [PDF, 70KB]

• Subsidies are not all the same. Press release 7 Sept 2004
• Stop Dumping - Promote Food Security! (April 2004)

• NGO Policy Paper on the G8 summit 2007 (March 2007)