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Download	December 2011 | By Julian Mukiibi WTO Agriculture Disciplines And Negotiations: Implications for Equitable Agriculture Development in the East African Community This Study identifies the opportunities enshrined in WTO agreements for member countries of the East African Community, with a focus on assessing to the extent to which they facilitate equitable agricultural development. Constraints faced by stakeholders in the East African countries in exploiting such opportunities are also analised. Recommendations are provided for a variety of stakeholders with the aim to help these countries harness their well-endowed agriculture sector, towards equitable development and poverty reduction.
Download	December 2011 | By Adeline Sozanski Facilitating Equitable Agriculture Development in sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of the EU-EAC EPA This Study identifies opportunities under the EU-EAC EPA that could foster equitable development in the East African Community, as well as current shortcomings in negotiations that need to be addressed towards this end. Negotiators should take into account for the EPA to deliver on inclusive development.
Download	December 2011 | By Hussein Nassoro Facilitating Equitable Agriculture Development in sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Tanzania This study examines the existing relationships between the agriculture policy makers, farmers, investors and traders in Tanzania as well as their role and contribution to the policy formulation and implementation. It goes further to identify both the positive and negative elements in the relevant policy frameworks that either facilitate or hamper positive interaction and equitable terms of trade among farmers, investors and traders.
Download	December 2011 | By Gloria Otieno Facilitating Equitable Agriculture Development in sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Kenya This Study identifies both the positive and negative elements in the relevant legal and institutional policy and regulatory framework that either facilitate or hamper positive interaction and equitable terms of trade among farmers, investors and traders in Kenya. It proposes elements of an enabling environment for positive interaction and equitable terms of trade among all relevant stakeholders in the Kenyan agriculture sector and provides recommendations towards inclusive agricultural development in Kenya.
Download	December 2011 | By Ndebesa Mwambutsya Ndebesa Facilitating Equitable Agriculture Development in sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Uganda This study assesses the nature and roles of all stakeholders involved in the Uganda agriculture sector, and identifies elements of an enabling institutional framework for positive interaction and equitable terms of trade among farmers, investors and traders in Uganda. It provides recommendations that will promote positive interaction between them, and ultimately lead to inclusive agricultural development and mitigate poverty in the country.
Download	2009 Leveraging the Agriculture Sector through Trade: Opportunities and Challenges in the EC-EAC EPA For the EC-EAC EPA to achieve its economic development objective agriculture specific support is required to address the challenges discussed above. Policy makers should also give the agriculture sector the attention it deserves, considering its potential to contribute substantially to the development needs of the region.
Download	2009 | By Julian Mukiibi The Most Favoured-Nation Provision in the EC-EAC EPA and its Implications The issue with the MFN clause in the EPAs is that it may slow down South-South trade since the “major trading economies may not find any incentive to negotiate bilateral concessions with the EAC/ACP countries knowing that these would be taken advantage of by the EC rather than their own exporters; thus leading to slowdown in expansion/diversification of the export basket for EAC/ACP countries.
Download	2009 | By Julian Mukiibi Export taxes and EPAs-Another Policy Tool under Threat from the EC? An export tax is simply a duty applied by countries to products before export, although it can take several forms. Export taxes can be introduced at a standard rate; can fluctuate, depending on world prices, and can also induce a complete ban on exports.
Download	2009 | By Victor Ogalo & Gideon Rabinowitz Trade in Services and EPAs: The way forward for the EAC With an interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) on trade in goods having been agreed between the European Union (EU) and the countries of the East African Community (EAC), attention in the current phase of negotiations has turned to the remaining issues in the negotiations to conclude a comprehensive agreement that include services liberalisation.
Download	2009 | By Victor Ogalo & Gideon Rabinowitz Standards and Market Access under EPAs: Implications and Way Forward for EAC The economic costs associated with meeting high EU standards when a country has only a limited volume of production is particularly important for developing countries. This could come to constitute a barrier to trade. In this context, derogation provisions will need to be developed, which allow greater use to be made of non-originating raw materials, where this allows the unit costs of SPS-compliance in the countries concerned to be reduced to an economically viable level.
Download	2009 | By Dr. Beatrice Mkenda and Monica Hangi Revenue Implications of the EC-EAC EPA: the Case of Tanzania The issue of revenue implications of EPAs on the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries has been widely debated, as the development implications of the reduction in government revenue that will result from the elimination of customs duties. EAC member countries’ high reliance on trade taxes as a source of government revenue is a threat to the development objectives of these countries, if alternative sources are not found.