At the WTO (World Trade Organization), the general principle of the negotiations is that of the single undertaking: there is no agreement as states are not agree on everything. Historically, two cases have helped to block a broad agreement, agriculture and access to nonagricultural says "NAMA" in English. If
for the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), agricultural activity accounts for only a few percentage points of GDP for many countries in the world, it is essentially activity
the, often vital, upon which the majority of the population, while it determines the power of the entire population of cities. Burkina Faso is in this situation where the low price of rice, corn and cotton imports originate from the agricultural subsidies
tions of the major powers to export ...
Small and medium states are struggling to counter the will of major players, there is nothing new on the table. Worse, in the current talks, the risk is that multilateralism which boasts the WTO into a series of bilateral negotiations, which would remove any possibility of coalition small and medium states ...
(source: Bulletin No. 79 of "Lines of ATTAC", newsletter of the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and citizen action).
Furthermore, farming in Burkina Faso, including food crops, also suffers from the strategies of intermediate wholesalers require farmers to sell at prices lower and lower. Thus, more than a decade after its launch, the chain of cashew nut (cashew fruit, cashew is cultivated by farmers particularly in the area of Sindou and Banfora) failed to chart its own course. The performances are quickly confronted with the precipitous decline in the price of nuts on the market. 300-F kg in 2002, the price of a kilo of raw nuts in 2006 fell to less than 100F (this is farm-gate prices). While production is increasing from year to year, are buyers who impose their prices to farmers . These farmers practice mixed farming with methods and tools mostly traditional but evolving and can provide good yields, without using chemical fertilizers and pesticides ... well, the manure of chickens when they are high barn (which is again Sindou but is increasing in the country) is a fertilizer used by the younger generation of farmers. These new methods of cultivation and livestock (such as manure pit and Zai) were introduced by agronomists Burkinabe, accompanied or not by NGOs.
