Too Much Malarkey Negotiations continue on a WTO agreement for the December ministerial in Buenos Aires, and some of the positions being asserted are absurd. Brazil has reasonably suggested that food stockpiling for food security purposes should be incorporated as a domestic support program, which is its functional outcome, but Indonesia objects to this categorization. India, which earlier declared it to be the burden of opponents to define the additional measures required to accept food stockpiling, now objects to the proposals that challenge engendered. New Delhi opposes any limit on the products to be stockpiled, and it decries the proposed transparency requirements as “burdensome.” Other countries should quote back to Indi...

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