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This paper examines the potential effect of proposed policies that aim to solve the predicament of some developing countries who are at risk of violating WTO rules due to their public stockholding programs, which provide market support to domestic food producers. Overall, the author argues that this public stockholding issue can be solved in a way that would allow developing countries to still have many options on how to continue to provide support to their farmers. He also argues that it is important that the international community takes heed of the calls of developing countries to address imbalances in the domestic support allowances system.