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AOA (other)
Aoa, AOA, or AoA may refer to: Government * Agreement on Agriculture, a World Trade Organization treaty * Administration on Aging, a health agency of the United States * Angolan kwanza, the currency of Angola * Auxiliary Organizations Association, an organized body related to the California State University system * Analysis of Alternatives, form of trade study used by the Department of Defense Science and health *Aoa (genus), ''Aoa'' (genus), a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae *Age of acquisition, a psycholinguistic term *Alpha Omega Alpha, a medical honor society *American Optometric Association, a health association *American Osteopathic Association, a medical association *Archaea , Ammonia-oxidizing archaea performing oxidation of ammonia into nitrite (Nitrification) *Angle of arrival, direction from which a radio wave arrives at an antenna array * Angle of attack, a measure of a body through a fluid *Australian Orthopaedic Association, a not-for-profit organisatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agreement On Agriculture
The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) is an international treaty of the World Trade Organization. It was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and entered into force with the establishment of the WTO on January 1, 1995. History Origins The idea of replacing agricultural price support with direct payments to farmers decoupled from production dates back to the late 1950s, when the twelfth session of the GATT Contracting Parties selected a Panel of Experts chaired by Gottfried Haberler to examine the effect of agricultural protectionism, fluctuating commodity prices and the failure of export earnings to keep pace with import demand in developing countries. The 1958 Haberler Report stressed the importance of minimising the effect of agriculture subsidies on competitiveness and recommended replacing price support with direct supplementary payments not linked with production, anticipating discussion on green box subsidies. Only more recently, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |