Location: Oxford, UK
Date: 8 - 9 June, 2004

Context: Trade liberalization is the most effective international means to attack poverty. Agricultural gains represent 40 percent of gains from trade liberalization for the developing world. The current stalemate is due to the inability of trade negotiators to agree on the necessary trade-offs to make the round a genuine development round, in large part because of the deadlock in agriculture. A G20 at Leaders Level could help end the stalemate. G20 leaders could lift the overall framework out of the hands of trade-negotiators. The leaders-level agreement, characterized as ?trading away poverty?, could rewrite the briefs for negotiators and thereby create the conditions for a fair deal.

Papers

Luisa Bernal		The Way Forward in Agriculture
Panos Konandreas		Tariff Negotiations in Agriculture: A Dynamic Blended Formula
Patrick A. Messerlin		Forging a Deal on Agricultural Trade Reform
Sophia Murphy		Agricultural Trade: Time for a New Framework
Dominiques Njinkeu and Francis Mangeni		A development-focused Agricultural Deal
John M. Weekes		A Possible Scenario for a Deal on Agricultural Trade Reform

Backgrounders

Amrita Narlikar		The World Trade Organization: A Case for G20 Action on Institutional Reform
Kevin Watkins		WTO Negotiations on Agriculture: Problems and Ways Ahead
Carolyn Deere		Capacity Building and Policy Coherence: A Role for a Leaders’ Level G20?
Dr. Ngaire Woods, Director - The Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford University		Agricultural Subsidies & the WTO