Trade in agricultural commodities has enormous variations in terms of impacts – be they on poverty, gender or the environment. This underlines the significance of careful analysis in the choice of trade development path for the sector and calls for…
The term non-tariff measures (NTMs) is defined to include export restraints and production and export subsidies, or measures with similar effect, not just import restraints. In Kenya many internal processes by trade facilitation agencies have been…
On the 20th day of November 2009, in the city of Arusha, Tanzania, presidents Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (Tanzania), Pierre Nkurunziza (Burundi), Mwai Kibaki (Kenya), Paul Kagame (Rwanda), and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (Uganda) jointly signed the Protocol…
Informal Cross-Border Trade in agricultural commodities between Kenya and her neighbours has been growing with time, but knowledge of its magnitude, determinants and consequences remain largely inadequate. This has acted to inhibit formulation of…
This concept paper has discussed the World Trade Organisation ( WTO) – on going Doha round negotiations on Non Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) and flanked out the areas that need to be researched on, with an ultimate objectives of informing the…