Agricultural Subsidies in the WTO Green Box: Ensuring Coherence with Sustainable Development Goals
Do the World Trade Organization's rules on 'green box' farm subsidies allow both rich and poor countries to achieve important goals such as food security, or do they worsen poverty, distort trade and harm the environment? Current WTO requirements set no ceiling on the amount of green box subsidies that governments can provide, on the basis that these payments cause only minimal trade distortion. Governments are thus increasingly shifting their subsidy spending into this category, as they come...
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An analysis of the relationship between green box subsidies and sustainable development goals, which includes options for future reform.
List of contributors viiiPreface xviiAcknowledgements xxiiiList of abbreviations xxv1 Overview Christophe Bellmann Jonathan Hepburn 1Part I The recent evolution of agricultural trade policy reform 172 The historical context of the green box Néstor Stancanelli 193 Doha Round negotiations on the green box and beyond Jonathan Hepburn Christophe Bellmann 364 The reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy Alan Swinbank 705 Farm policy reform in the United States: past progress and future direction David Orden 866 Agricultural trade policy reform in Japan Masayoshi Honma 121Part II The focus, extent and economic impact of green box subsidies 1357 An analysis of EU, US and Japanese green box spending Jesús Antón 1378 Green box subsidies and trade-distorting supports: is there a cumulative impact? Carlos Galperín Ivana Doporto Miguez 2399 The distributional structure of green box subsidies in the European Union and France Vincent Chatellier 25810 The distributional structure of US green box subsidies Harry De Gorter 304Part III Green box subsidies and developing countries 32711 Agricultural subsidies in the WTO green box: opportunities and challenges for developing countries André Nassar Maria Elba Rodriguez-Alcalá Cinthia Costa Saulo Nogueira 32912 Use of green box measures by developing countries: an assessment Biswajit Dhar 36913 A Chinese perspective on the green box Jianmin Xie 39914 African countries and the green box Abena Oduro 412Part IV Green box subsidies and the environment 42515 The environmental impact of green box subsidies: exploring the linkages Ronald Steenblik Charles Tsai 42716 The environmental impact of EU green box subsidies Ariel Brunner Harry Huyton 46817 The environmental impact of US green box subsidies Jane Earley 49618 Biofuels subsidies and the green box Timothy Josling David Blandford 530Part V Looking forward: how can change take place? 56919 Improving monitoring and surveillance of green box subsidies Andrea Cerda 57120 EU subsidy reform: options for achieving change Teresa Cavero 58321 Subsidy reform in the US context: deviating from decoupling Ann Tutwiler 60422 Agricultural trade policy reform in Japan: options for achieving change Kazuhito Yamashita 61823 Towards a green box subsidy regime that promotes sustainable development: strategies for achieving change Pedro De Camargo Neto Renato Henz 633Appendix: Text of Annex 2 of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture ("the green box") 647Index 654
