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Developing countries blast rich-world farm subsidies at Rome talks

by Chris Arsenault

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Wealthy countries are still subsidizing their farmers at the expense of developing nations, undermining market access for some of the world’s poorest producers, two farm ministers told a Food and Agriculture Organization meeting on Monday.

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