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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9824
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi

Europe must take UN study on agricultural trade into account

The EU will have to take the conclusions of the UN Special Rapporteur into account o, “the right to food” (see this column yesterday), as well as his position expressed in the final phase of the Doha Round in Geneva when defining the future of the common agricultural policy (CAP). The analyses of Olivier de Schutter indicate, in particular, that far from improving the food situation in poor countries, total liberalisation of agricultural trade makes it worse and is one of the causes of...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
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