The draft declaration puts agriculture back at the center of the WTO ministerial agenda, but it also underscores how little convergence members have achieved after years of talks.
By leaning mainly on Jamaica’s food-security-focused proposal while sidestepping core demands from the African Group and India, the text sets up a final pre-MC14 fight over whether ministers can produce a credible path forward on farm trade reform or merely paper over entrenched divisions on public stockholding, special safeguards, and the future direction of the Doha agriculture negotiations.
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