farm subsidies

The United States had no intention of backing down in its bitter row over farm subsidies.

To help advance trade talks, the United States was prepared to reduce U. S. farm subsidies to $14. 5 billion, Schwab said.

America, the European Union and Switzerland have all introduced new farm subsidies (or restarted programmes that had been allowed to lapse).

Among the latest moves was an increase in farm subsidies to boost production and curb grain price hikes.

Countries are already seeking exceptions; France, for instance, says cutting farm subsidies would be illegal.

At the same time, America's critics are right to say that its offers on farm subsidies are less attractive than they sound.

It may never be easier to reduce farm subsidies, one of the most delicate issues in trade talks.

The latest Geneva talks got nowhere in large part because America refused to make bigger cuts in its farm subsidies (see article).

Market, little more than an agricultural union with two-thirds of its massive budget spent on farm subsidies.

Currently, nutrient-deprived soil, trade regulations, and foreign farm subsidies force Haiti to import more than 60 percent of its food.

It would cut farm subsidies and spending on everything from the U. S. military to the government travel budget.

Meanwhile, the US is demanding better access to agricultural markets, including India, in exchange for cutting farm subsidies.

They promised to make deeper reductions in farm subsidies, widen market access for agricultural goods and cut tariffs.

And France won't even entertain the idea of reducing its massive farm subsidies without major concessions from poor countries.

Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king.

Rural senators today ensure that wasteful, trade-distorting, ally- enraging farm subsidies will never die.

With money tight, even the loudest advocates of farm subsidies are changing their arguments.

And farm subsidies in the EU made up a slightly greater proportion of farmers' incomes in 2007-09 than two decades beforehand.

Conservatives, meanwhile, won't touch spending on their own pet programmes, not least defence and farm subsidies.

Protectionist tariffs and farm subsidies illustrate the same problem.

Li says American food aid and farm subsidies discourage farmers in poorer countries from raising their own crops.

It's the dependence on farm subsidies and under-performing schools and higher poverty rates in rural areas than in urban.

EU policies, once in place, are hard to reverse even if they are clearly harmful, as decades of farm subsidies have shown.

Farm subsidies account for about a sixth of total farm revenues .

Unlike other farm subsidies, basic research works.

S. in both regards. Our economic management is so lax that we can't confront farm subsidies or long-term budget deficits.

Public funds poured in after an earthquake in 1980; EU farm subsidies are another tempting target.

WHAT CHINA PROMISED: China agreed to cap its future spending on farm subsidies at 8. 5 percent of the value of domestic farm production.

And European Union farm subsidies are infamous.

The fear is that newly-elected Democrats from rural swing districts could lose their seats if voters blamed them for lower farm subsidies.

There are more important things to focus on, such as US and European farm subsidies. They really do hurt the poor.

The root cause of the problems in our food system is really farm subsidies and the way that they work.

Spending on farm subsidies will provoke a fight.

This is what makes Bush's decision to increase farm subsidies last month all the more depressing.

But shouldn't farm subsidies themselves make food cheaper?

the government tried to block an agreement on farm subsidies.

Look at African farm subsidies.

The US, for example, is offering a $14. 4bn ceiling on those farm subsidies deemed to distort international trade.

India wanted fewer farm subsidies and lower tariffs but was unwilling to reduce barriers to farm goods and industrial products;

Most of the spending went on farm subsidies under the common agricultural policy (CAP);

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