Reports on current developments and issues in world agriculture. Monitors the global agricultural situation as well as the overall economic environment surrounding world agriculture. Presents and overview of the status of negotiations on agricultural trade following the launching of the World Trade Organization's new round of multilateral trade negotiations. Discusses how public goods such as agriculture, fisheries and forestry properly managed can provided benefits to large sections of people. Calls for increased international inflow of funds towards agriculture and rural areas, in order to promote globally the provision of these public goods.
part 1. World review -- 1. Current agricultural situation - facts and figures -- 2. The global economy and agriculture -- Part 2. Regional review -- 1 Africa -- 2. Asia and the Pacific -- 3. Latin America and the Caribbean -- 4. Near East and North Africa -- 5. Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States -- 6. Developed market economies -- Part 3. Agriculture and global public goods ten years after the Earth Summit -- 1. The role of agriculture and land in the provision of global public goods -- 2. Harvesting carbon sequestration through land-use change: a way out of rural poverty?

xxi, 227 p. : ill., graphs, tables

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