This info is a bit dated, but still very relevant: it doesn’t matter that food is "cheap" if you haven’t got a mean of making money because you can never compete with dumped agricultural products from the EU. Of course, if food stops being cheap then it's all the more difficult...
"The so-called gains for developing countries, duty and quota free access to markets, are just little crumbs that will not make up for the price millions of farmers, fishermen, Indigenous Peoples and others in the developing world will have to pay as a result of the rest of the deal. Proposals to open markets in farming and natural-resource sectors, including forests, fisheries and minerals, will benefit the world's largest corporations, but are likely to have a devastating impact on millions of the world's poorest people, who rely on access to natural resources for their livelihoods, food and medicines."
"Export subsidies will be abolished by 2013 - but only if poor countries agree to open up their industrial and service sectors, something most developing countries had strongly resisted." From this website.
"The so-called gains for developing countries, duty and quota free access to markets, are just little crumbs that will not make up for the price millions of farmers, fishermen, Indigenous Peoples and others in the developing world will have to pay as a result of the rest of the deal. Proposals to open markets in farming and natural-resource sectors, including forests, fisheries and minerals, will benefit the world's largest corporations, but are likely to have a devastating impact on millions of the world's poorest people, who rely on access to natural resources for their livelihoods, food and medicines."
"Export subsidies will be abolished by 2013 - but only if poor countries agree to open up their industrial and service sectors, something most developing countries had strongly resisted." From this website.
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