The current American and European mutual accusations of agricultural protectionism are an obvious case of the pot calling the kettle black. What series of events led up to this confrontation? And how can the conflict situation be eased?

1 Agricultural Globalization, Trade, and the Environment: Introduction -- I: Farm Programs and Trade Liberalization -- 2 Farm Policy Reform in the United States -- 3 Trade, Uncertainty, and New Farm Programs -- 4 Has the Importance of Foreign Markets for U.S. Agriculture been Oversold? -- 5...

Acting on complaints by Brazil, the World Trade Organization (WTO) adopted in Spring 2005 two dispute settlement reports that not only require changes to U.S. and European agricultural subsidies, but alter the balance of concessions reached in the 1994 Agreement on Agriculture, further...