The negotiations within the  have resulted in the following:

Agreement on Agriculture
Concessions and commitments Members are to undertake on market access,
Domestic support and export subsidies
Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
Ministerial Decision concerning Least-Developed and Net Food-Importing Developing countries

On the whole, the results of the negotiations make a decisive move towards the objective of increased market orientation in agricultural trade.
Other important issues:

Provisions that encourage the use of less trade-distorting domestic support policies to maintain the rural economy.

The introduction of tightly prescribed provisions that allow some flexibility in the implementation of commitments.

Specific concerns of developing countries have been addressed including the concerns of net-food importing countries and least-developed countries.
 
 

Agreement on Agriculture (AOA)
The AOA came into effect on 1 January 1995 after the Uruguay Round reform program gave birth to the WTO. Agriculture had been kept out of international trade talks on grounds that it was too important for food security. This reform program, as mentioned earlier seeks to establish fair and market oriented agricultural system. In the AOA commitments extend over three areas; Market Access, Domestic support programs and Export subsidies. 
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Anderson, Kym and Bernard Hoekman(1999) "Developing Country Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda" Working Paper. (NewYork: World Bank)

Chaherli, Nabil and Moataz El-Said (2000) "Impact of the WTO Agreement on MENA Agriculture"  (Cairo: Economic Research Forum )

Fontana, Marzia; Joekes, Susan; Masika, Rachel.(1998). Global Trade Expansion and Liberalization: Gender Issues and Impacts BRIDGE Report No. 42, IDS. Sussex.

 
 

Market Access
“This is a commitment by WTO signatories to discourage import restraints. This aspect of the agreement seeks to eventually eliminate import barriers thus opening up national borders to provide a market for agricultural produce from other countries. In the WTO, non-tariff barriers to agriculture are replaced by tariff. All tariffs on agricultural products are reduced by an average of 36%in DCs and 24%in LDCs. Tariff quotas are designed to ensure that trade barriers do not prevent the achievement of the agreed level of access for products previously subject to non-tariff barriers. Increased market access due to the abolition of quotas, which ensure a limit to quantities that could be imported from other countries has had adverse impact on LDCs. This has opened up LDC markets to food dumping by the North. For instance, the build up of huge subsidies in the United States (US)and European Union (EU) designed to protect their agriculture from cheaper imports from LDCs resulted in a distortion in international trade in agriculture as the surpluses generated from heavy subsidization resulted in increased dumping of agricultural produce from the North in developing countries. Due to the threats imposed by dumping of developed countries produce and lack of markets for agricultural produce, many developing countries also felt that agriculture should be brought into the WTO umbrella. The expectation was that the rules based system of trade in agriculture would improve agricultural exports of LDCs while protecting their domestic markets from food dumping by the North”. Read more about market access
More Resources

Bagherzadeh, Morvarid and Raed Safadi (2003) "Market  access Issues for MENA Countries: Where are the Obstacles?"  Newsletter of the Economic Research Forum, Volume ten -Number three-Autumn 2003 (Cairo: ERF)
 
Michalopoulos, Constantine (1999) "Trade Policy and Market Access Issues for Developing Countries: Implications for the Millennium Round" Working Paper. (World Bank: New York)
 

Cernat, L.; Laird, S.; Turrini, A.(2002) "How Important are Market Access Issues for Developing Countries in the Doha Agenda?" (Nottingham: Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT)

 
 

Domestic Support Programs
“Domestic support programs such as government support to domestic producers is seen as a distortion in trading with agricultural commodities. The objective of this program therefore is to restructure/restrict domestic support of agricultural products to ensure that it does not interfere with foreign trade. Domestic support measures aimed at providing food to the poor at subsidized prices are exempted from the reduction commitments. General government services aimed at investment promotion and disease control are also exempted”.
 
 

Export Subsidy
“The commitment on export subsidy relates in particular, to government support for export.For each year of implementation, total budgetary outlays and the total quantity of export covered by export subsidy are noted in the country schedule. If a country has never had subsidies in the agricultural sector it is not allowed to start providing export subsidy. There is, however, special and differential treatment for developing countries This includes exemptions on subsidies aimed at reducing the cost of marketing and transportation of produce”.
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Panagariya, Arvind (2000) "Evaluating the Case for Export Subsidies" Working Paper (World Bank: New York)
 
 

AOA and Developing countries
“This agreement could actually serve to encourage exports in LDCs and reduce dumping by developed nations if it had been implemented with a proper assessment of the state of the agricultural sector in developing countries. As it stands, the agreement allows countries which have been using measures for import restraint and domestic subsidy to retain protection for their agricultural sector throughout the implementation period whilst those countries which were not using protective measures earlier are prohibited from introducing them. This exacerbates the problem by allowing countries, which distorted trade in the past to continue doing so whilst those who have never done so are prohibited to use protective measures in future. This has made developing nations to be even more vulnerable to dumping by low cost producers” (GENTA RESEARCH OFFICE,2000)
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Ruffer, T.; Swinbank, A.(2003) "Stock-take of the WTO agriculture negotiations: implications for developing countries :WTO negotiations: issues for developing countries" (Oxford : Oxford Policy Management (OPML)
 

GENTA Research Office (2001) "Trade Liberalization :Impacts on African Women"
 Prepared for The International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN) meeting, Cape Town, South Africa

Pal, P.(2001) "Implementation issues of the Agreement on Agriculture and its implications for developing countries"  (India : Economic Research Foundation (ERF)

Hertel, T.W.; Anderson, K.; Francois, J. F.; Martin, W. (1999) "Agriculture and Non-agricultural Liberalization in the Millennium Round" Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)

Robbins, P.(1999) "Review of the Impact of Globalization on the Agricultural Sectors and Rural communities of ACP countries" (Wageningen: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
 

Ingco, Merlinda, D. "Has Agricultural Trade Liberalization Improved Welfare in the Least Developed Countries? Yes" (Washington D.C : Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank)

Binswanger, H.P.; Deininger, K. "Explaining Agricultural and Agrarian Policies in Developing Countries" (Washington D.C.: Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank)

Saunders, Lucy Wood and Soheir Mehanna. (1986) "Unseen Hands: Women's Farm Work in an Egyptian Village" Anthropological Quarterly 59.3 (July): 105-114