26 . The following are specific recommendations for making trade policy more sustainable : ( a ) improve market access for developing countries , and progress on tariffs and subsidies : industrialized countries should phase out subsidized agricultural overproduction and export dumping ; ( b ) fundamentally reform the role of export credit agencies which have largely become subsidies providers for the private sector of exporting countries ; ( c ) end the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) -World Bank use of conditionalities which force poor countries to open their markets indiscriminately , regardless of the impacts on poor people and the environment ; ( d ) promote diversification and end oversupply in major commodities , in order to raise prices to fair and equitable levels for producers in poor countries ; ( e ) promote fair-trade strategies allowing agricultural producers to charge more by placing a price premium on greater social benefits and less environmental harm ; ( f ) review and reform the intellectual property rules to enable developing countries to afford new technologies and basic medicines , and farmers to benefit from adequate seed provision systems , retaining the ability to save , exchange or sell seed , as well as to benefit indigenous people ; ( g ) prohibit rules that force Governments to liberalize or privatize basic services vital for poverty reduction or the public interest ; ( h ) democratize the World Trade Organization ; ( i ) eliminate all `` environmentally perverse '' subsidies , and redirect such resources to environmental protection and social development ; ( j ) Government should address the tension between the trade-environmental regimes : trade rules must respect environmental and social/poverty objectives ; ( k ) integrate the precautionary principle and common but differentiated responsibilities principle into trade disputes and trade rules ; ( l ) introduce mechanisms to assess the social , economic and environmental ( sustainability ) impacts prior to the negotiation of any new World Trade Organization agreement ; and ( m ) improve the quality of private-sector investment and labour standards .