Options for WTO negotiations on agriculture domestic support

Bellman, Christophe; and Hepburn, Jonathan. 2017. Options for WTO negotiations on agriculture domestic support. In Agricultural trade interests and challenges at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires: A Southern Cone perspective. Piñeiro, Valeria and Piñeiro, Martín (Eds.). Chapter 1. Pp. 17-26. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) et al.: San Jose, Costa Rica.

This article explores various recent ideas that governments have put forward on the issue of agricultural domestic support, with a view to helping negotiators and other actors better understand how these might affect actual levels of support as well as the maximum permitted ceilings under WTO rules.