A number of countries view that WTO [World Trade Organization — the only global intertiol organization dealing with the rules of trade between tions — at its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading tions and ratified in their parliaments, where the very goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business] should see that arrangements should be more flexible so that developing countries can support and protect their agricultural and rural development and ensure the livelihoods of their large agrarian populations whose farming is quite different from the scale and methods in developing countries. They argue, for example, that subsidies and protection are needed to ensure food security, to support small scale farming, to make up for a lack of capital, or to prevent the rural poor from migrating into already over-congested cities.