Agrardumping designates the offer from agricultural products to prices, which are substantially under production costs. Thus in particular the agriculture of many developing countries is endangered.

High-subsidized if products of the USA and of the member countries of the European Union, which come by subsidies (export refunding) to Niedrigstpreisen on the world market, destroy the basis of existence for Kleinbauern. Rural depletion, hunger and migration from the land are consequences of this development.

Critics of the Agrardumping see also disadvantages for the richer countries. To their agriculture mass was promoted instead of quality. This leads by increased fertilizer and plant protection agent employment to an unnecessary environmental impact. Besides the subsidies were distributed in an unfair way in favor of the large enterprises.

Actually Preisdumping is one in the monitoring system of the world trade organization (World Trade Organization) forbidden practice. The agrarian range is so far however protected by special arrangements (certain forms of farm subsidies) and structural obstacles (editions of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) against effective antidumping measures.

In the current negotiations to the World Trade Organization agrarian agreement the forms are therefore examined by subsidies, which flow to the producers in the industrialized countries.

See also

Agricultural policy agricultural commodities market order

Literature

• Germanwatch (Hrsg.): Dumping terminate - nourishing bases in the south secure! , May 2004, 111 sides, printed version available: versand@germanwatch.org (8, - euro zzgl. 2, - euro forwarding expenses) or Download in the pdf format (1.7 MT)

Related links

• German wading CH initiative against Agrardumping

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