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International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council

IPCGlobal Reach

Africa

Members

Namanga Ngongi: President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. (Kenya)

Ajay Vashee: President, Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions. (Zambia)

Events and Seminars

US and EU Food Import Requirements – the Case of Green Beans and Shrimp

Geneva, Switzerland

June 26, 2008

39th IPC Seminar

Strengthening and Widening Markets and Overcoming Supply Side Constraints for African Agriculture
Lusaka, Zambia
June 3-5, 2007

The Doha Development Round: What's at Stake for Africa?
Washington, DC
Febuary 14, 2007
Details

Achieving Agricultural Development through Agricultural Trade: An IPC Capacity and Communication Building Seminar
Johannesburg, South Africa
February 29, 2004
Details

Africa's Future Role in World Agricultural Trade
24th IPC Seminar
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
October 13-15, 1999
Details

Studies that Focused on Africa

AGOA and Agriculture

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was enacted in 2000 to help diversify Africa’s export production, expand trade and investment between the United States and sub-Saharan Africa, and accelerate Africa’s economic growth. Countries must qualify for AGOA benefits based on criteria which include the establishment of a market-based economy, rule of law, and enactment of poverty reduction strategies. Forty African countries are currently eligible for AGOA benefits, which provide preferential access to the US market above and beyond the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and Most-Favored Nation (MFN) systems.

US Farm Programs and African Cotton
Prompted by the results of the WTO cotton case pursued by Brazil against the US, IPC's paper analyzes issues related to cotton and trade, with a particular focus on the elimination or reduction of US cotton export and domestic subsidies and the possible consequences for African cotton farmers. The paper provides an update on trade reforms undertaken to date and set forth the possible drivers for further US reforms. It also projects the expected outcome and impact of reforms undertaken either as a result of the US coming into compliance with the WTO cotton panel ruling, US implementation a concluded Doha Development agreement, or US farm policy reforms brought about through the 2007 Farm Bill. The paper reflects on the options available to least developed countries attempting to change the nature of domestic support in developed countries, and how such options could be improved or expanded.