WTO talks end with breakthrough on farm subsidies, split on Doha

Foreign Affairs PS Karanja Kibicho gives a vote of thanks at the closing ceremony of the WTO talks in Nairobi on Saturday. [Photo: Jonah Onyango/Standard]

The World Trade Organisation reached deals on agricultural export subsidies, food aid and other issues on Saturday, capping a ministerial conference in Nairobi where rich and poor countries had been split over the path of trade reform.

Members said the Nairobi deal had drawn a line under years of stalemate over the direction of global trade negotiations.