This edition discusses two selected topics: the trade performance of a group of low-income food-deficit countries with very low capacity to finance imports; and the impact of the liberalization of agricultural policies on the consumer.
Part 1. World review: current agricultural situation -- facts and figures; overall economic environment and agriculture; selected issues -- Part 2. Regional review: developing country regions; developed country regions -- Part 3. Agricultural trade -- entering a new era?: changing trends and patterns?; a changing world environment for agricultural trade; the evolution of international trade rules; the development of regional trade agreements; international trade, the environment and sustainable agricultural development.

xxvi, 301 p. : ill., graphs, tables

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