Adjustment Assistance and Compensation There will always be
winners and losers from agricultural trade policy reform. When
the losers include the most vulnerable countries and
communities, development assistance has an important has an
important coherence role to play. At the country level, adverse
shocks can arise either because food-importing countries must
pay more for their food imports after reform, or because some
food-exporting developing countries lose out because the
advantages of preferential access to protected markets in
developed countries are eroded. Such shocks can arise either in
the multilateral context, e.g. the Doha Round, or because of
unilateral policy changes, e.g. EU sugar or banana policy
reform. Helping Net Food-Importing Countries The fear that food-
importing developing countries might face short term
difficulties in financing normal levels of imports of basic
foodstuffs following the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture
was addressed in the Decision on Measures Concerning the Poss