A new report from Coordination SUD.

Agriculture occupied centre stage in the last round of multilateral trade negotiations at the World Trade
Organisation (WTO). This should in particular work in favour of the Developing Countries (DCs) for whom agriculture is often of capital importance in terms of contribution to the national wealth or the combat against poverty.

European subsidies are accused of distorting competition between the agricultural products exported by the European Union (EU) and those of the South. The international solidarity NGOs have in particular denounced the negative repercussions of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on the farmers of the DCs in a few key sectors such as milk, sugar, poultry or bovine meat, in certain regions or countries such as West Africa, Jamaica, Kenya and India. Moreover, many of them have no faith in the reforms that have been set in motion. On the contrary, they denounce the fact that the green box (WTC) is used by the EU and the United States to continue to subsidise their agriculture massively to the detriment of the DCs.

The purpose of this study is to put into perspective the recent reforms of the CAP with the evolution of European exports agricultural and food between 1995 and 2006.

Download the Coordination SUD report : CAP reforms and European presence on the markets of the DCs