POLICY SEMINAR

Disciplining Domestic Support

NOV 30, 2021 - 09:00 AM TO 10:00 AM EST

The upcoming WTO Ministerial in late November will provide yet another opportunity to address and reform agricultural domestic support. The domestic support pillar has been at the heart of the agricultural negotiations since they began in 2000, but it has proven challenging to achieve consensus on how to advance reforms. In fact, domestic support levels remain high and have risen in recent years.

This event will discuss a recent report by IFPRI researchers that suggests that new disciplines could both reduce distortions and provide significant protection in the event of a subsidy war by reducing "leakage" in domestic support disciplines.

Welcome Remarks:

Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI

Speakers:

Joseph Glauber, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

David Laborde Debucquet, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

Discussants:

Nelson Illescas, Director en Fundación, Instituto Para Las Negociaciones Agrícolas Internacionales (INAI)

Lee Ann Jackson, Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Moderator:

Valeria Piñeiro, Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI

RELATED PUBLICATIONS

• Harmonizing And Reducing Trade Distorting Domestic Support: An Analysis Of The Impacts Of New Domestic Support Disciplines At The WTO (https://www.ifpri.org/publication/harmonizing-and-reducing-trade-distorting-domestic-support-analysis-impacts-new-domestic)

• The Road To The WTO Twelfth Ministerial Conference: A Latin American And Caribbean Perspective (https://www.ifpri.org/publication/road-wto-twelfth-ministerial-conference-latin-american-and-caribbean-perspective)

More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/disciplining-domestic-support

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