{"id":1838,"date":"2004-09-17T18:36:55","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T22:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/09\/17\/\/"},"modified":"2004-09-17T18:36:55","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T22:36:55","slug":"1838","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/09\/1838\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/cheap-eu-sugar.jpg\" alt=\"Cheap EU Sugar\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maketradefair.com\/en\/index.php?file=cotton_07.htm\" rel=\"external\"><strong>A sweeter deal for poor farmers &#8211; WTO rule against EU sugar dumping<\/strong><\/a><br \/>Last week saw a World Trade Organisation panel rule that EU sugar dumping in poor countries is illegal. Following on from an earlier WTO verdict against US cotton subsidies, we&#8217;re seeing unfair agricultural subsidies topple one by one, and a fairer chance for poor farmers to make a living.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oxfam estimates that US cotton dumping cost Africa more than $300m between 2001 and 2002, while Mozambique, Malawi and Ethiopia have lost $238m since 2001 as a result of restricted access to Europe&#8217;s markets for their sugar.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sweeter deal for poor farmers &#8211; WTO rule against EU sugar dumpingLast week saw a World Trade Organisation panel rule that EU sugar dumping in poor countries is illegal. Following on from an earlier WTO verdict against US cotton subsidies, we&#8217;re seeing unfair agricultural subsidies topple one by one, and a fairer chance for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}