In Mozambique, cotton producers say that it's not just agricultural subsidies that are stacked against them.
African governments have long complained that U.S. and European agricultural subsidies are undercutting African farmers.
Tony Blair stepped in with his protrade appeal, but the talks broke down over agricultural subsidies.
For instance, getting rid of industrial and agricultural subsidies makes sense, but politicians cling to them.
Third, the diversion of agricultural subsidies involved only 1% of the funds allocated to the programme.
Such schemes are not helped by the fact that government agricultural subsidies go disproportionately to the richer north.
In the past, Australia and Canada have backed US opposition to the European Union's system of agricultural subsidies.
However, agricultural subsidies favouring US farmers have dealt severe blows to African efforts to compete in the food market.
In the Uruguay round, pushed by America, countries agreed to cut and set ceilings on their trade-distorting agricultural subsidies.
Fifth, none of the recipients of diverted agricultural subsidies contributed to my campaign.
The US trade representative, Ron Kirk, said that even sensitive issues such as agricultural subsidies will be up for discussion.
We reform agricultural subsidies -- subsidies that a lot of times pay large farms for crops that they don't grow.
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Continued reform-retarding grain sales only frustrates the vital process of breaching the cycle of Russian dependency on Western agricultural subsidies.
Then quit wasting our precious resources on outdated or foolish spending like agricultural subsidies, ethanol subsidies, and dozens of redundant government agencies.
It suggests denying most direct support payments to farmers in incoming countries that is, depriving them of what will be the bulk of agricultural subsidies.
States that gave Mr Bush his victory get the most agricultural subsidies, points out Riordan Roett, of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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For twenty years, up until 2001, the big EU agenda was how it could switch out of its crippling agricultural subsidies into high tech innovation.
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The EU's main audit body says agricultural subsidies - the biggest item in the EU budget - often go to people who do little or no farming.
There are numerous abusive and wasteful programs which should be eliminated, such as pork and earmarks, foreign aid, corporate welfare, agricultural subsidies, and endless grants to most everyone.
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For Brazil, access to Europe's vast market is second in importance only to the multilateral Doha talks, which offer hope of cutting agricultural subsidies in the rich world.
Programs he has gone after in the past include agricultural subsidies, defense programs such as C-17 military transport planes, and an alternate engine for the Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter.
Brazil, also a competing cotton producer, believes that this combination of US agricultural subsidies and over-production has resulted in the dumping of American cotton on the world markets, depressing world prices.
You should have noted that in the mid-1980s prices for agricultural commodities on which New Zealand depended hit their lowest level ever (thanks to agricultural subsidies, particularly in Europe and America).
Ineptness at the Rural Payments Agency, the bit of government charged with distributing agricultural subsidies, led to seriously delayed payment for hundreds of farmers and the resignation of its boss in 2006.
In return for crowding out, the government paid about forty cents on each dollar of entitlements, general government, public education, GM and Chrysler bailouts, Solyndras, agricultural subsidies, and so on down the list.
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They want the Anglo-Saxon economic model - a liberalised economy, open markets, free trade, an end to the agricultural subsidies that, for the French, have been the bedrock of the European Union for half a century.
Obama had also proposed reducing agricultural subsidies to farmers with sales of more than half a million dollars a year, a notion that farm-state senators like Conrad, who have disproportionate influence on the Budget and Finance Committees, rejected.
The nation's capital has been abuzz recently with chatter of restarting the World Trade Organization's Doha round of trade negotiations, which fell apart last summer primarily due to differences between industrialized and developing countries over agricultural subsidies in rich economies.
President Ronald Reagan, the iconic conservative, quickly backed off proposals like an initiative to reduce certain Social Security benefits when they stimulated a strong political backlash, and he left many other kinds of domestic spending, like Medicare or agricultural subsidies, intact.
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