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Introduction2
As Africa has a strong actual and potential international comparative advantage in
agriculture and agri-processed products, improving African agricultural producers’ access to
world markets should benefit African agriculture, exports and overall economic growth
significantly. However, developed and even developing countries generally operate high
tariff and non tariff barriers to agricultural trade, and many developed economies subsidise
agricultural production and exports, depressing world agricultural prices and undermining
Africa’s options of pursuing agricultural export oriented economic growth. Hence, achieving
agricultural trade liberalisation in the Doha round is important for Africa’s future
development prospects.
Footnote:
- Dr Frances Perkins is the executive director of the Economic Analytical Unit at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
- This trade policy briefing is the first in a series of briefings published by the
South African Institute of International Affairs’ Development Through Trade project, which is
funded by DFID and USAID. The briefing is based on a longer report by the Economic Analytical
Unit (2003a) in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, ‘Advancing African
Agriculture through Trade Reform’,
www.dfat.gov.au/eau.
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