Agricultural Trade

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An important part of the mandate of the OECD is to provide analytical support to agricultural trade liberalisation. Uruguay Round implementation is evaluated and the effects of further liberalisation estimated. Emerging issues relevant to agricultural trade are also analysed.

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Rising Agricultural Prices: Causes, Consequences and Responses (Policy Brief)

11-Sep-2008

World prices of wheat, coarse grains (in particular corn), rice and oilseed
crops nearly doubled between 2005 and 2007 and continued to rise in early
2008. These prices, along with those of meat, sugar and dairy products, are
likely to ease somewhat in the next 10 years, but are likely to stay well above
the average of the past decade.

OECD and FAO see agricultural commodity prices remaining high and growing more volatile

29-May-2008

Agricultural commodity prices should ease from their recent record peaks but over the next 10 years they are expected to average well above the mean of the past decade, according to the latest Agricultural Outlook from OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

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