Despite the publicity given to ‘reform’ of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and Doha round of trade negotiations, we are not about to see anything resembling liberal trade in agriculture. EU ‘liberalisation’ aims to sustain European production but to reshuffle the subsidies and taxes to make them less costly to the European budget and more easily defensible in the WTO, concludes research from the UK's Institute for Development Studies that reviews trade agendas and implications for food policy and food security in Africa. The research notes that patterns of agricultural trade and policy are changing rapidly. Africa is being squeezed not by formal World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations but through the rearrangement of agricultural subsidies in developed countries, changes in trade preferences and Africa’s inability to participate in setting standards. Africa faces the prospect of paying more for the cereals it imports and earning less from its agricultural exports.