As Africa has a strong actual and potential international comparative advantage in agriculture and agri-processed products, improving African agricultural producers’ access to world markets should benefit African agriculture, exports and overall economic growth significantly. However, developed and even developing countries generally operate high tariff and non tariff barriers to agricultural trade, and many developed economies subsidise agricultural production and exports, depressing world agricultural prices and undermining Africa’s options of pursuing agricultural export oriented economic growth. Hence, achieving agricultural trade liberalisation in the Doha round is important for Africa’s future development prospects, says this briefing from the South African Institute of International Affairs, available on the web page of the Southern African Regional Poverty Network.