Trade : Consensus eludes trade ministers at Marrakesh (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The just-concluded informal trade ministerial summit in Marrakesh on 10 October brought into sharp focus the linkages between fisheries subsidies and improvements in the Doha trade remedy rules, and between the permanent solution for public stockholding programs and domestic support.

Trade : No outcomes possible at MC11, unilateralist USA insists (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The United States, which sent a low-level delegation to the Marrakesh meeting, continued to maintain its unilateral position that no outcomes are possible at the World Trade Organization's eleventh ministerial meeting in Buenos Aires beginning on 10 December, participants told SUNS.

Trade : New "vertical" text on fisheries, assessment by Rules Chair (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
The proponents of the seven textual proposals, put forward in the ongoing negotiations on fisheries subsidies, have submitted a new "non-paper" compiling these proposals.

Latin America : Rights of rural women have seen uneven progress (PRIV)
(IPS, Lima)
In a remote village in the Peruvian Andes, Bonificia Huaman managed to overcome adverse weather conditions with a small greenhouse, where she grows vegetables at 3,533 metres above sea level. This has improved her family's diet, which she is very proud of.