WTO ROUND UP
December 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE PROBLEM for farmers when considering how to influence international negotiations that are as long, complicated and important as the scheduled five years of discussions over updating the World Trade Organisation's agriculture agreement, is knowing when to spend money on lobbyists to intervene. So as 2003 beds in, there is a good chance that farming organisations will be preparing to send some silver tongues specialists to Geneva to ooze their way around diplomats and try and tweak these talks in their favour. Why?Essentially, because March 31 ...
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