Africa’s big win on agriculture as curtains fall on Nairobi WTO summit

Foreign Affairs’ CS Amina Mohammed, right, and Director General WTO Brazil's Roberto Azevedo display a copy of the WTO Draft Nairobi Declaration during Tenth Ministerial Conference at Kenyatta International Convention Center on Saturday, Dec 19, 2015. PHOTO: JONAH ONYANGO.

NAIROBI: Kenya and other poor countries left the grueling talks of the World Trade Organisation with major wins on agriculture despite stiff opposition from developed nations, including the United States.

When the conference ended late last evening, the delegations had agreed to eliminate production and export subsidies, which have been blamed for distorting market prices by keeping them artificially low.