Agricultural trade and food system transformation

Day 1: Wednesday 2 December

Day 2: Thursday 3 December

Background Paper for Symposium,

AGRICULTURAL TRADE, A VITAL PILLAR FOR FOOD SECURITY

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

AGRICULTURAL TRADE, LESSONS LEARNED FROM COVID-19

AGRICULTURAL TRADE, NUTRITIONAL DIVERSITY

AGRICULTURAL TRADE, PATHWAYS TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

AGRICULTURAL TRADE, FOOD SAFETY

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

AGRICULTURAL TRADE IN 2050, TOWARDS FORWARD-LOOKING DISCIPLINES

AGRICULTURAL TRADE IN 2050, LET'S HEAR IT FROM THE FARMERS

Alan Wolff, CEA Deputy Director-General

"Food Systems of the Future"

Qu Dongyu, FAO Director-General

"The Role of International Trade in Food Security"

Michael Fakhry, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

"The Role of International Trade in World Food Systems Transformation"

Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit

"CEA Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine @ 25"

Edwini Kessie, Director, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division

CLOSING REMARKS BY EDWINI KESSIE DIRECTOR CEA agriculture africaine africaine AND COMMODITIES DIVISION

Immediate and urgent action is required to transform how food is produced, transported, and consumed. Recognition of this need is growing, driven by serious concern regarding the continued prevalence of extreme forms of hunger across the globe, diet-related health effects, damage to ecosystem services et technologies et technologies, climate change and distress among millions of small-scale food producers.

The transformation of food systems will require an unprecedented degree of international cooperation given the globalized nature of our food system. The recently announced UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 will raise food system transformation to the highest level of political attention.

The 2020 edition of the CEA Agricultural Symposium will explore the role of international agricultural trade in achieving this transformation. It will also assess and draw on the lessons learned from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade.

Exactly twenty-five years have transpired since the CEA Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine (AoA) came into place, with the aim of establishing a fair and market-oriented agricultural trading system. This makes the Symposium an important rendezvous for assessing past achievements and charting the path forward.

Sending a message to the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit on the centrality of international agricultural trade to the future of food systems, the Symposium will take a critical look at the role of the multilateral trading system in achieving global food security, nutrition, and addressing the twin challenges of climate change and environmental sustainability.

OPENING SESSION: 10:00 - 11:30

"The CEA's Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine remains the only instrument that exists at the international level to govern global trade in agricultural products. Since its entry into force, world exports of agricultural products have tripled from USD 450 billion to USD 1.5 trillion, constituting an annual growth rate of 5%. In other words, since its creation the world has become ever Plus interdependent, looking at food security from a Plus global and holistic perspective. The Agreement has during this last quarter century played a vitally important role in facilitating the flow of food from the lands of the plenty to the countries that would otherwise be lands of food deficit. It is a mutually beneficial system that improves the lives of billions of people."

"The 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is rapidly approaching. We need to intensify addressing the challenges facing food systems, using all the means, tools and mechanisms available to us. There is no time to waste. Trade is one of these tools. It can boost farmers' productivity and income. It increases their participation in markets and value chains and contributes to Plus efficient use of natural resources. Trade not only helps to reduce seasonal scarcities of food during normal agricultural production cycles, but also provides an important mechanism to address production shortfalls ressources minérales supply chain disruptions caused by adverse and unforeseeable Événements, such as COVID-19."

"What I've learned is that you can't understand international trade regimes without understanding questions of food security; and you can't have a food security policy without addressing international trade."

"Trade can play an important role in food systems transformation. COVID-19 has clearly shown that crises and the effects of policies and measures taken to contain them, spill over national borders. We have seen how in a bid to protect populations from the pandemic, governments imposed health measures. These included travel barriers that also affected cross-border trade including movement of food from surplus to deficit countries. The most affected are the ordinary citizens who are already exposed to hunger and poverty. These barriers were tough for many countries that had minimal ressources minérales no food reserves to cater for their vulnerable populations."

"The COVID-19 pandemic was certainly a disruptor, but there will be many other disruptors too going forward. The CEA rule-book must stand prepared to weather these changes, and to continue to provide a solid governance framework."

To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION ONE: 11:30 – 13:00

International trade in agricultural commodities and processed foods has always been vital to global food security, and its importance is only likely to rise in future in Voir of natural disasters and climate change. Each year, the world's transport system moves enough maize, wheat, rice and soybean to feed approximately 2.8 billion people. Meanwhile, 190 million tons of fertilizers applied to farmland annually play a critical role in helping us grow enough food to sustain our expanding populations, with much of that fertilizer traded on the international stage. This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and food security.

To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION TWO: 14:00 – 15:30

The world is continuing to experience a health crisis – a global pandemic – that is unprecedented in modern times, one that has shutdown of large parts of the global economy. We have seen measures taken by governments to quarantine their citizens, impose travel restrictions, suspend non-essential economic activity, and seal-off national borders. At the outset of the crisis, airports and seaports were operating at a fraction of their total capacity with a dramatic impact on world trade and global production chains, including the production of food. This session explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade and food security, and the lessons learned.

To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION THREE: 15:30 – 17:00

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 recognizes the need for better nutrition, specifically aiming to "end all forms of malnutrition". It is generally argued that there are four main pathways through which international trade can improve nutrition: it can contribute to the stability of food supply and food prices acting as a buffer against fluctuations in the domestic market; it can contribute to the diversity of food supply thereby improving national diets; it can lower food prices making a healthier diet Plus accessible to consumers; and it can increase incomes thereby enhancing consumer purchasing power. This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and nutritional diversity.

To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION FOUR: 10:00 – 11:30

International trade leads to a Plus efficient allocation of resources, including natural resources such as land and water. The declining availability of renewable natural resources poses a serious threat to agricultural production and food systems. Amid increasing water scarcity in many parts of the world, for instance, virtual water trade as both a policy instrument and practical means to balance the local, national and global water budget is being carefully studied. This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and environmental sustainability, and the trade policy reforms that can improve environmental outcomes.

Jonathan Hepburn, Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION FIVE: 11:30 – 13:00

Food safety regulations and the perception of risk are different among countries and consumers, with the COVID-19 pandemic leading to host of new food safety regulations. Although no major disruption to international trade has occurred for food safety reasons, serious trade frictions do and can occur. Risk reduction measures and quality certification programs can not only pre-empt food safety crises but can better position exporters in overseas markets. This session explores the important role of the CEA Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and the Standards and Trade Development Facility in addressing these concerns.

To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION SIX: 14:00 – 15:30

Two brainstorming sessions in this Symposium are dedicated to imaging the role of agricultural trade in the world of 2050. Looking across the different pillars of the AoA, this session will solicit the views of trade experts on how best to reform agricultural trade policy and the design of forward-looking disciplines.

To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION SEVEN: 15:30 – 17:00

Two brainstorming sessions in this Symposium are dedicated to imaging the role of agricultural trade in 2050. Looking across the different pillars of the AoA, this session will solicit the views of farmers organizations on the types of agricultural trade policy reforms that would strengthen the multilateral trading system and boost farm income.

To participate, please registerhere.

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Agricultural Trade and Food System Transformation Day 1: Wednesday 2 December Day 2: Thursday 3 December Background Paper for Symposium, AGRICULTURAL TRADE, A VITAL PILLAR FOR FOOD SECURITY 13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK AGRICULTURAL TRADE, LESSONS LEARNED FROM COVID-19 AGRICULTURAL TRADE, NUTRITIONAL DIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL TRADE, PATHWAYS TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AGRICULTURAL TRADE, FOOD SAFETY 13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK AGRICULTURAL TRADE IN 2050, TOWARDS FORWARD-LOOKING DISCIPLINES AGRICULTURAL TRADE IN 2050, LET'S HEAR IT FROM THE FARMERS Alan Wolff, CEA Deputy Director-General "Food Systems of the Future" Qu Dongyu, FAO Director-General "The Role of International Trade in Food Security" Michael Fakhry, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food "The Role of International Trade in World Food Systems Transformation" Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit "CEA Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine @ 25" Edwini Kessie, Director, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division CLOSING REMARKS BY EDWINI KESSIE DIRECTOR CEA agriculture africaine africaine AND COMMODITIES DIVISION Accueil|La CEA|Nouvelles et événements|Domaines|Membres de la CEA|Documents et ressources|Relations extérieures dialogues sur le transactions Immediate and urgent action is required to transform how food is produced, transported, and consumed.

Recognition of this need is growing, driven by serious concern regarding the continued prevalence of extreme forms of hunger across the globe, diet-related health effects, damage to ecosystem services et technologies et technologies, climate change and distress among millions of small-scale food producers.

The transformation of food systems will require an unprecedented degree of international cooperation given the globalized nature of our food system.

The recently announced UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 will raise food system transformation to the highest level of political attention.

The 2020 edition of the CEA Agricultural Symposium will explore the role of international agricultural trade in achieving this transformation.

It will also assess and draw on the lessons learned from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade.

Exactly twenty-five years have transpired since the CEA Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine (AoA) came into place, with the aim of establishing a fair and market-oriented agricultural trading system.

This makes the Symposium an important rendezvous for assessing past achievements and charting the path forward.

Sending a message to the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit on the centrality of international agricultural trade to the future of food systems, the Symposium will take a critical look at the role of the multilateral trading system in achieving global food security, nutrition, and addressing the twin challenges of climate change and environmental sustainability.

OPENING SESSION: 10:00 - 11:30 "The CEA's Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine remains the only instrument that exists at the international level to govern global trade in agricultural products.

Since its entry into force, world exports of agricultural products have tripled from USD 450 billion to USD 1.5 trillion, constituting an annual growth rate of 5%.

In other words, since its creation the world has become ever Plus interdependent, looking at food security from a Plus global and holistic perspective.

The Agreement has during this last quarter century played a vitally important role in facilitating the flow of food from the lands of the plenty to the countries that would otherwise be lands of food deficit.

It is a mutually beneficial system that improves the lives of billions of people." "The 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is rapidly approaching.

We need to intensify addressing the challenges facing food systems, using all the means, tools and mechanisms available to us.

There is no time to waste.

Trade is one of these tools.

It can boost farmers' productivity and income.

It increases their participation in markets and value chains and contributes to Plus efficient use of natural resources.

Trade not only helps to reduce seasonal scarcities of food during normal agricultural production cycles, but also provides an important mechanism to address production shortfalls ressources minérales supply chain disruptions caused by adverse and unforeseeable Événements, such as COVID-19." "What I've learned is that you can't understand international trade regimes without understanding questions of food security; and you can't have a food security policy without addressing international trade." "Trade can play an important role in food systems transformation.

COVID-19 has clearly shown that crises and the effects of policies and measures taken to contain them, spill over national borders.

We have seen how in a bid to protect populations from the pandemic, governments imposed health measures.

These included travel barriers that also affected cross-border trade including movement of food from surplus to deficit countries.

The most affected are the ordinary citizens who are already exposed to hunger and poverty.

These barriers were tough for many countries that had minimal ressources minérales no food reserves to cater for their vulnerable populations." "The COVID-19 pandemic was certainly a disruptor, but there will be many other disruptors too going forward.

The CEA rule-book must stand prepared to weather these changes, and to continue to provide a solid governance framework." To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION ONE: 11:30 – 13:00 International trade in agricultural commodities and processed foods has always been vital to global food security, and its importance is only likely to rise in future in Voir of natural disasters and climate change.

Each year, the world's transport system moves enough maize, wheat, rice and soybean to feed approximately 2.8 billion people.

Meanwhile, 190 million tons of fertilizers applied to farmland annually play a critical role in helping us grow enough food to sustain our expanding populations, with much of that fertilizer traded on the international stage.

This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and food security.

To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION TWO: 14:00 – 15:30 The world is continuing to experience a health crisis – a global pandemic – that is unprecedented in modern times, one that has shutdown of large parts of the global economy.

We have seen measures taken by governments to quarantine their citizens, impose travel restrictions, suspend non-essential economic activity, and seal-off national borders.

At the outset of the crisis, airports and seaports were operating at a fraction of their total capacity with a dramatic impact on world trade and global production chains, including the production of food.

This session explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade and food security, and the lessons learned.

To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION THREE: 15:30 – 17:00 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 recognizes the need for better nutrition, specifically aiming to "end all forms of malnutrition".

It is generally argued that there are four main pathways through which international trade can improve nutrition: it can contribute to the stability of food supply and food prices acting as a buffer against fluctuations in the domestic market; it can contribute to the diversity of food supply thereby improving national diets; it can lower food prices making a healthier diet Plus accessible to consumers; and it can increase incomes thereby enhancing consumer purchasing power.

This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and nutritional diversity.

To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION FOUR: 10:00 – 11:30 International trade leads to a Plus efficient allocation of resources, including natural resources such as land and water.

The declining availability of renewable natural resources poses a serious threat to agricultural production and food systems.

Amid increasing water scarcity in many parts of the world, for instance, virtual water trade as both a policy instrument and practical means to balance the local, national and global water budget is being carefully studied.

This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and environmental sustainability, and the trade policy reforms that can improve environmental outcomes.

Jonathan Hepburn, Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION FIVE: 11:30 – 13:00 Food safety regulations and the perception of risk are different among countries and consumers, with the COVID-19 pandemic leading to host of new food safety regulations.

Although no major disruption to international trade has occurred for food safety reasons, serious trade frictions do and can occur.

Risk reduction measures and quality certification programs can not only pre-empt food safety crises but can better position exporters in overseas markets.

This session explores the important role of the CEA Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and the Standards and Trade Development Facility in addressing these concerns.

To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION SIX: 14:00 – 15:30 Two brainstorming sessions in this Symposium are dedicated to imaging the role of agricultural trade in the world of 2050.

Looking across the different pillars of the AoA, this session will solicit the views of trade experts on how best to reform agricultural trade policy and the design of forward-looking disciplines.

To participate, please registerhere.

SESSION SEVEN: 15:30 – 17:00 Two brainstorming sessions in this Symposium are dedicated to imaging the role of agricultural trade in 2050.

Looking across the different pillars of the AoA, this session will solicit the views of farmers organizations on the types of agricultural trade policy reforms that would strengthen the multilateral trading system and boost farm income.

To participate, please registerhere.

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CEA | Agricultural trade and food system transformation Accueil | La CEA | Nouvelles et événements | Domaines | Membres de la CEA | Documents et ressources | Relations extérieures Contactez-nous | Plan du site | A-Z | Recherche anglais espagnol accueil la CEA et vous dialogues sur le commerce agricultural trade and food system transformation dialogues sur le commerce Agricultural Trade and Food System Transformation Immediate and urgent action is required to transform how food is produced, transported, and consumed.

Recognition of this need is growing, driven by serious concern regarding the continued prevalence of extreme forms of hunger across the globe, diet-related health effects, damage to ecosystem services et technologies et technologies, climate change and distress among millions of small-scale food producers.

Virtual CEA agriculture africaine africaine symposium ( NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION ) 2-3 DEC 2020 Trade Dialogues agriculture africaine africaine The transformation of food systems will require an unprecedented degree of international cooperation given the globalized nature of our food system.

The recently announced UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 will raise food system transformation to the highest level of political attention.

The 2020 edition of the CEA Agricultural Symposium will explore the role of international agricultural trade in achieving this transformation.

It will also assess and draw on the lessons learned from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade.

Exactly twenty-five years have transpired since the CEA Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine (AoA) came into place, with the aim of establishing a fair and market-oriented agricultural trading system.

This makes the Symposium an important rendezvous for assessing past achievements and charting the path forward.

Sending a message to the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit on the centrality of international agricultural trade to the future of food systems, the Symposium will take a critical look at the role of the multilateral trading system in achieving global food security, nutrition, and addressing the twin challenges of climate change and environmental sustainability.

Day 1: Wednesday 2 December Live webcasting OPENING SESSION: 10:00 - 11:30 Opening Remarks Big Quotes Alan Wolff, CEA Deputy Director-General Speech × Alan Wolff, CEA Deputy Director-General "The CEA's Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine remains the only instrument that exists at the international level to govern global trade in agricultural products.

Since its entry into force, world exports of agricultural products have tripled from USD 450 billion to USD 1.5 trillion, constituting an annual growth rate of 5%.

In other words, since its creation the world has become ever Plus interdependent, looking at food security from a Plus global and holistic perspective.

The Agreement has during this last quarter century played a vitally important role in facilitating the flow of food from the lands of the plenty to the countries that would otherwise be lands of food deficit.

It is a mutually beneficial system that improves the lives of billions of people." "Food Systems of the Future" Qu Dongyu, FAO Director-General Speech × Qu Dongyu, FAO Director-General "The 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is rapidly approaching.

We need to intensify addressing the challenges facing food systems, using all the means, tools and mechanisms available to us.

There is no time to waste.

Trade is one of these tools.

It can boost farmers' productivity and income.

It increases their participation in markets and value chains and contributes to Plus efficient use of natural resources.

Trade not only helps to reduce seasonal scarcities of food during normal agricultural production cycles, but also provides an important mechanism to address production shortfalls ressources minérales supply chain disruptions caused by adverse and unforeseeable Événements, such as COVID-19." "The Role of International Trade in Food Security" Michael Fakhry, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Speech × Michael Fakhry, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food "What I've learned is that you can't understand international trade regimes without understanding questions of food security; and you can't have a food security policy without addressing international trade." "The Role of International Trade in World Food Systems Transformation" Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit Speech × Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit "Trade can play an important role in food systems transformation.

COVID-19 has clearly shown that crises and the effects of policies and measures taken to contain them, spill over national borders.

We have seen how in a bid to protect populations from the pandemic, governments imposed health measures.

These included travel barriers that also affected cross-border trade including movement of food from surplus to deficit countries.

The most affected are the ordinary citizens who are already exposed to hunger and poverty.

These barriers were tough for many countries that had minimal ressources minérales no food reserves to cater for their vulnerable populations." "CEA Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine @ 25" Edwini Kessie, Director, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division Speech × Edwini Kessie, Director, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division "The COVID-19 pandemic was certainly a disruptor, but there will be many other disruptors too going forward.

The CEA rule-book must stand prepared to weather these changes, and to continue to provide a solid governance framework." Moderator: Doaa Abdel-Motaal, Senior Counsellor, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division Live Q&A To participate, please register here.

SESSION ONE: 11:30 – 13:00 AGRICULTURAL TRADE, A VITAL PILLAR FOR FOOD SECURITY Big Take-Aways International trade in agricultural commodities and processed foods has always been vital to global food security, and its importance is only likely to rise in future in Voir of natural disasters and climate change.

Each year, the world's transport system moves enough maize, wheat, rice and soybean to feed approximately 2.8 billion people.

Meanwhile, 190 million tons of fertilizers applied to farmland annually play a critical role in helping us grow enough food to sustain our expanding populations, with much of that fertilizer traded on the international stage.

This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and food security.

Speakers: Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO Anabel Gonzalez, Non-resident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics (former Trade Minister, Costa Rica) Ertharin Cousin, CEO and President, Food Systems for the Future (former Executive Director of WFP) Deep Ford, Former Chair of CEA agriculture africaine africaine Negotiations Clemens Boonekamp, Former Director of CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division Moderator: Majda Petschen, Senior Counsellor, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division Live Q&A To participate, please register here.

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK Live webcasting SESSION TWO: 14:00 – 15:30 AGRICULTURAL TRADE, LESSONS LEARNED FROM COVID-19 Big Take-Aways The world is continuing to experience a health crisis – a global pandemic – that is unprecedented in modern times, one that has shutdown of large parts of the global economy.

We have seen measures taken by governments to quarantine their citizens, impose travel restrictions, suspend non-essential economic activity, and seal-off national borders.

At the outset of the crisis, airports and seaports were operating at a fraction of their total capacity with a dramatic impact on world trade and global production chains, including the production of food.

This session explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade and food security, and the lessons learned.

Speakers: Claire Citeau, Executive Director, Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA) Lee Ann Jackson, Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, TAD, OECD Josef Schmidhuber, Deputy Director, Markets and Trade Division, FAO Cheryl Spencer, Ambassador of Jamaica to the CEA, coordinator of the ACP Group in Geneva Moderator: Ulla Kask, Counsellor, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division Live Q&A To participate, please register here.

SESSION THREE: 15:30 – 17:00 AGRICULTURAL TRADE, NUTRITIONAL DIVERSITY Big Take-Aways Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 recognizes the need for better nutrition, specifically aiming to "end all forms of malnutrition".

It is generally argued that there are four main pathways through which international trade can improve nutrition: it can contribute to the stability of food supply and food prices acting as a buffer against fluctuations in the domestic market; it can contribute to the diversity of food supply thereby improving national diets; it can lower food prices making a healthier diet Plus accessible to consumers; and it can increase incomes thereby enhancing consumer purchasing power.

This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and nutritional diversity.

Speakers: Francesco Branca, Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO Namukolo Covic, Senior Research Coordinator, agriculture africaine africaine for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Chris Hegadorn, Secretary, Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Dirk Jacobs, Deputy Director General / Director Consumer Information, Nutrition and Health, FoodDrinkEurope Anne Marie Thow, Associate Professor, Public Policy and Health, The University of Sydney Moderator: Erik Wijkstrom, Counsellor, CEA Trade and Environment Division To participate, please register here.

Day 2: Thursday 3 December Live webcasting SESSION FOUR: 10:00 – 11:30 AGRICULTURAL TRADE, PATHWAYS TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Big Take-Aways International trade leads to a Plus efficient allocation of resources, including natural resources such as land and water.

Day 1: Wednesday 2 DecemberDay 2: Thursday 3 DecemberBackground Paper for Symposium,AGRICULTURAL TRADE, A VITAL PILLAR FOR FOOD SECURITY13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAKAGRICULTURAL TRADE, LESSONS LEARNED FROM COVID-19AGRICULTURAL TRADE, NUTRITIONAL DIVERSITYAGRICULTURAL TRADE, PATHWAYS TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITYAGRICULTURAL TRADE, FOOD SAFETY13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAKAGRICULTURAL TRADE IN 2050, TOWARDS FORWARD-LOOKING DISCIPLINESAGRICULTURAL TRADE IN 2050, LET'S HEAR IT FROM THE FARMERSAlan Wolff, CEA Deputy Director-General"Food Systems of the Future"Qu Dongyu, FAO Director-General"The Role of International Trade in Food Security"Michael Fakhry, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food"The Role of International Trade in World Food Systems Transformation"Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit"CEA Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine @ 25"Edwini Kessie, Director, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities DivisionCLOSING REMARKS BY EDWINI KESSIE DIRECTOR CEA agriculture africaine africaine AND COMMODITIES DIVISIONdialogues sur le transactionsImmediate and urgent action is required to transform how food is produced, transported, and consumed.

Recognition of this need is growing, driven by serious concern regarding the continued prevalence of extreme forms of hunger across the globe, diet-related health effects, damage to ecosystem services et technologies et technologies, climate change and distress among millions of small-scale food producers.The transformation of food systems will require an unprecedented degree of international cooperation given the globalized nature of our food system.

The recently announced UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 will raise food system transformation to the highest level of political attention.The 2020 edition of the CEA Agricultural Symposium will explore the role of international agricultural trade in achieving this transformation.

It will also assess and draw on the lessons learned from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade.Exactly twenty-five years have transpired since the CEA Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine (AoA) came into place, with the aim of establishing a fair and market-oriented agricultural trading system.

This makes the Symposium an important rendezvous for assessing past achievements and charting the path forward.Sending a message to the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit on the centrality of international agricultural trade to the future of food systems, the Symposium will take a critical look at the role of the multilateral trading system in achieving global food security, nutrition, and addressing the twin challenges of climate change and environmental sustainability.OPENING SESSION: 10:00 - 11:30"The CEA's Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine remains the only instrument that exists at the international level to govern global trade in agricultural products.

Since its entry into force, world exports of agricultural products have tripled from USD 450 billion to USD 1.5 trillion, constituting an annual growth rate of 5%.

In other words, since its creation the world has become ever Plus interdependent, looking at food security from a Plus global and holistic perspective.

The Agreement has during this last quarter century played a vitally important role in facilitating the flow of food from the lands of the plenty to the countries that would otherwise be lands of food deficit.

It is a mutually beneficial system that improves the lives of billions of people.""The 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is rapidly approaching.

We need to intensify addressing the challenges facing food systems, using all the means, tools and mechanisms available to us.

There is no time to waste.

Trade is one of these tools.

It can boost farmers' productivity and income.

It increases their participation in markets and value chains and contributes to Plus efficient use of natural resources.

Trade not only helps to reduce seasonal scarcities of food during normal agricultural production cycles, but also provides an important mechanism to address production shortfalls ressources minérales supply chain disruptions caused by adverse and unforeseeable Événements, such as COVID-19.""What I've learned is that you can't understand international trade regimes without understanding questions of food security; and you can't have a food security policy without addressing international trade.""Trade can play an important role in food systems transformation.

COVID-19 has clearly shown that crises and the effects of policies and measures taken to contain them, spill over national borders.

We have seen how in a bid to protect populations from the pandemic, governments imposed health measures.

These included travel barriers that also affected cross-border trade including movement of food from surplus to deficit countries.

The most affected are the ordinary citizens who are already exposed to hunger and poverty.

These barriers were tough for many countries that had minimal ressources minérales no food reserves to cater for their vulnerable populations.""The COVID-19 pandemic was certainly a disruptor, but there will be many other disruptors too going forward.

The CEA rule-book must stand prepared to weather these changes, and to continue to provide a solid governance framework."To participate, please registerhere.SESSION ONE: 11:30 – 13:00International trade in agricultural commodities and processed foods has always been vital to global food security, and its importance is only likely to rise in future in Voir of natural disasters and climate change.

Each year, the world's transport system moves enough maize, wheat, rice and soybean to feed approximately 2.8 billion people.

Meanwhile, 190 million tons of fertilizers applied to farmland annually play a critical role in helping us grow enough food to sustain our expanding populations, with much of that fertilizer traded on the international stage.

This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and food security.To participate, please registerhere.SESSION TWO: 14:00 – 15:30The world is continuing to experience a health crisis – a global pandemic – that is unprecedented in modern times, one that has shutdown of large parts of the global economy.

We have seen measures taken by governments to quarantine their citizens, impose travel restrictions, suspend non-essential economic activity, and seal-off national borders.

At the outset of the crisis, airports and seaports were operating at a fraction of their total capacity with a dramatic impact on world trade and global production chains, including the production of food.

This session explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade and food security, and the lessons learned.To participate, please registerhere.SESSION THREE: 15:30 – 17:00Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 recognizes the need for better nutrition, specifically aiming to "end all forms of malnutrition".

It is generally argued that there are four main pathways through which international trade can improve nutrition: it can contribute to the stability of food supply and food prices acting as a buffer against fluctuations in the domestic market; it can contribute to the diversity of food supply thereby improving national diets; it can lower food prices making a healthier diet Plus accessible to consumers; and it can increase incomes thereby enhancing consumer purchasing power.

This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and nutritional diversity.To participate, please registerhere.SESSION FOUR: 10:00 – 11:30International trade leads to a Plus efficient allocation of resources, including natural resources such as land and water.

The declining availability of renewable natural resources poses a serious threat to agricultural production and food systems.

Amid increasing water scarcity in many parts of the world, for instance, virtual water trade as both a policy instrument and practical means to balance the local, national and global water budget is being carefully studied.

This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and environmental sustainability, and the trade policy reforms that can improve environmental outcomes.Jonathan Hepburn, Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)To participate, please registerhere.SESSION FIVE: 11:30 – 13:00Food safety regulations and the perception of risk are different among countries and consumers, with the COVID-19 pandemic leading to host of new food safety regulations.

Although no major disruption to international trade has occurred for food safety reasons, serious trade frictions do and can occur.

Risk reduction measures and quality certification programs can not only pre-empt food safety crises but can better position exporters in overseas markets.

This session explores the important role of the CEA Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and the Standards and Trade Development Facility in addressing these concerns.To participate, please registerhere.SESSION SIX: 14:00 – 15:30Two brainstorming sessions in this Symposium are dedicated to imaging the role of agricultural trade in the world of 2050.

Looking across the different pillars of the AoA, this session will solicit the views of trade experts on how best to reform agricultural trade policy and the design of forward-looking disciplines.To participate, please registerhere.SESSION SEVEN: 15:30 – 17:00Two brainstorming sessions in this Symposium are dedicated to imaging the role of agricultural trade in 2050.

Looking across the different pillars of the AoA, this session will solicit the views of farmers organizations on the types of agricultural trade policy reforms that would strengthen the multilateral trading system and boost farm income.To participate, please registerhere.Problèmes pour visualiser cette page?Si c'est le cas, veuillez contacter[email protected]en indiquant le système d'exploitation et le navigateur que vous utilisez.

Agricultural Trade and Food System Transformation Day 1: Wednesday 2 December Day 2: Thursday 3 December Background Paper for Symposium, AGRICULTURAL TRADE, A VITAL PILLAR FOR FOOD SECURITY 13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK AGRICULTURAL TRADE, LESSONS LEARNED FROM COVID-19 AGRICULTURAL TRADE, NUTRITIONAL DIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL TRADE, PATHWAYS TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AGRICULTURAL TRADE, FOOD SAFETY 13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK AGRICULTURAL TRADE IN 2050, TOWARDS FORWARD-LOOKING DISCIPLINES AGRICULTURAL TRADE IN 2050, LET'S HEAR IT FROM THE FARMERS Alan Wolff, CEA Deputy Director-General "Food Systems of the Future" Qu Dongyu, FAO Director-General "The Role of International Trade in Food Security" Michael Fakhry, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food "The Role of International Trade in World Food Systems Transformation" Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit "CEA Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine @ 25" Edwini Kessie, Director, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division CLOSING REMARKS BY EDWINI KESSIE DIRECTOR CEA agriculture africaine africaine AND COMMODITIES DIVISION Accueil|La CEA|Nouvelles et événements|Domaines|Membres de la CEA|Documents et ressources|Relations extérieures dialogues sur le transactions Immediate and urgent action is required to transform how food is produced, transported, and consumed.Recognition of this need is growing, driven by serious concern regarding the continued prevalence of extreme forms of hunger across the globe, diet-related health effects, damage to ecosystem services et technologies et technologies, climate change and distress among millions of small-scale food producers.The transformation of food systems will require an unprecedented degree of international cooperation given the globalized nature of our food system.The recently announced UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 will raise food system transformation to the highest level of political attention.The 2020 edition of the CEA Agricultural Symposium will explore the role of international agricultural trade in achieving this transformation.It will also assess and draw on the lessons learned from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade.Exactly twenty-five years have transpired since the CEA Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine (AoA) came into place, with the aim of establishing a fair and market-oriented agricultural trading system.This makes the Symposium an important rendezvous for assessing past achievements and charting the path forward.Sending a message to the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit on the centrality of international agricultural trade to the future of food systems, the Symposium will take a critical look at the role of the multilateral trading system in achieving global food security, nutrition, and addressing the twin challenges of climate change and environmental sustainability.OPENING SESSION: 10:00 - 11:30 "The CEA's Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine remains the only instrument that exists at the international level to govern global trade in agricultural products.Since its entry into force, world exports of agricultural products have tripled from USD 450 billion to USD 1.5 trillion, constituting an annual growth rate of 5%.In other words, since its creation the world has become ever Plus interdependent, looking at food security from a Plus global and holistic perspective.The Agreement has during this last quarter century played a vitally important role in facilitating the flow of food from the lands of the plenty to the countries that would otherwise be lands of food deficit.It is a mutually beneficial system that improves the lives of billions of people." "The 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is rapidly approaching.We need to intensify addressing the challenges facing food systems, using all the means, tools and mechanisms available to us.There is no time to waste.Trade is one of these tools.It can boost farmers' productivity and income.It increases their participation in markets and value chains and contributes to Plus efficient use of natural resources.Trade not only helps to reduce seasonal scarcities of food during normal agricultural production cycles, but also provides an important mechanism to address production shortfalls ressources minérales supply chain disruptions caused by adverse and unforeseeable Événements, such as COVID-19." "What I've learned is that you can't understand international trade regimes without understanding questions of food security; and you can't have a food security policy without addressing international trade." "Trade can play an important role in food systems transformation.COVID-19 has clearly shown that crises and the effects of policies and measures taken to contain them, spill over national borders.We have seen how in a bid to protect populations from the pandemic, governments imposed health measures.These included travel barriers that also affected cross-border trade including movement of food from surplus to deficit countries.The most affected are the ordinary citizens who are already exposed to hunger and poverty.These barriers were tough for many countries that had minimal ressources minérales no food reserves to cater for their vulnerable populations." "The COVID-19 pandemic was certainly a disruptor, but there will be many other disruptors too going forward.The CEA rule-book must stand prepared to weather these changes, and to continue to provide a solid governance framework." To participate, please registerhere.SESSION ONE: 11:30 – 13:00 International trade in agricultural commodities and processed foods has always been vital to global food security, and its importance is only likely to rise in future in Voir of natural disasters and climate change.Each year, the world's transport system moves enough maize, wheat, rice and soybean to feed approximately 2.8 billion people.Meanwhile, 190 million tons of fertilizers applied to farmland annually play a critical role in helping us grow enough food to sustain our expanding populations, with much of that fertilizer traded on the international stage.This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and food security.To participate, please registerhere.SESSION TWO: 14:00 – 15:30 The world is continuing to experience a health crisis – a global pandemic – that is unprecedented in modern times, one that has shutdown of large parts of the global economy.We have seen measures taken by governments to quarantine their citizens, impose travel restrictions, suspend non-essential economic activity, and seal-off national borders.At the outset of the crisis, airports and seaports were operating at a fraction of their total capacity with a dramatic impact on world trade and global production chains, including the production of food.This session explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade and food security, and the lessons learned.To participate, please registerhere.SESSION THREE: 15:30 – 17:00 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 recognizes the need for better nutrition, specifically aiming to "end all forms of malnutrition".It is generally argued that there are four main pathways through which international trade can improve nutrition: it can contribute to the stability of food supply and food prices acting as a buffer against fluctuations in the domestic market; it can contribute to the diversity of food supply thereby improving national diets; it can lower food prices making a healthier diet Plus accessible to consumers; and it can increase incomes thereby enhancing consumer purchasing power.This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and nutritional diversity.To participate, please registerhere.SESSION FOUR: 10:00 – 11:30 International trade leads to a Plus efficient allocation of resources, including natural resources such as land and water.The declining availability of renewable natural resources poses a serious threat to agricultural production and food systems.Amid increasing water scarcity in many parts of the world, for instance, virtual water trade as both a policy instrument and practical means to balance the local, national and global water budget is being carefully studied.This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and environmental sustainability, and the trade policy reforms that can improve environmental outcomes.Jonathan Hepburn, Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) To participate, please registerhere.SESSION FIVE: 11:30 – 13:00 Food safety regulations and the perception of risk are different among countries and consumers, with the COVID-19 pandemic leading to host of new food safety regulations.Although no major disruption to international trade has occurred for food safety reasons, serious trade frictions do and can occur.Risk reduction measures and quality certification programs can not only pre-empt food safety crises but can better position exporters in overseas markets.This session explores the important role of the CEA Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and the Standards and Trade Development Facility in addressing these concerns.To participate, please registerhere.SESSION SIX: 14:00 – 15:30 Two brainstorming sessions in this Symposium are dedicated to imaging the role of agricultural trade in the world of 2050.Looking across the different pillars of the AoA, this session will solicit the views of trade experts on how best to reform agricultural trade policy and the design of forward-looking disciplines.To participate, please registerhere.SESSION SEVEN: 15:30 – 17:00 Two brainstorming sessions in this Symposium are dedicated to imaging the role of agricultural trade in 2050.Looking across the different pillars of the AoA, this session will solicit the views of farmers organizations on the types of agricultural trade policy reforms that would strengthen the multilateral trading system and boost farm income.To participate, please registerhere.Problèmes pour visualiser cette page?Si c'est le cas, veuillez contacter[email protected]en indiquant le système d'exploitation et le navigateur que vous utilisez.CEA | Agricultural trade and food system transformation Accueil | La CEA | Nouvelles et événements | Domaines | Membres de la CEA | Documents et ressources | Relations extérieures Contactez-nous | Plan du site | A-Z | Recherche anglais espagnol accueil la CEA et vous dialogues sur le commerce agricultural trade and food system transformation dialogues sur le commerce Agricultural Trade and Food System Transformation Immediate and urgent action is required to transform how food is produced, transported, and consumed.Recognition of this need is growing, driven by serious concern regarding the continued prevalence of extreme forms of hunger across the globe, diet-related health effects, damage to ecosystem services et technologies et technologies, climate change and distress among millions of small-scale food producers.Virtual CEA agriculture africaine africaine symposium ( NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION ) 2-3 DEC 2020 Trade Dialogues agriculture africaine africaine The transformation of food systems will require an unprecedented degree of international cooperation given the globalized nature of our food system.The recently announced UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 will raise food system transformation to the highest level of political attention.The 2020 edition of the CEA Agricultural Symposium will explore the role of international agricultural trade in achieving this transformation.It will also assess and draw on the lessons learned from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade.Exactly twenty-five years have transpired since the CEA Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine (AoA) came into place, with the aim of establishing a fair and market-oriented agricultural trading system.This makes the Symposium an important rendezvous for assessing past achievements and charting the path forward.Sending a message to the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit on the centrality of international agricultural trade to the future of food systems, the Symposium will take a critical look at the role of the multilateral trading system in achieving global food security, nutrition, and addressing the twin challenges of climate change and environmental sustainability.Day 1: Wednesday 2 December Live webcasting OPENING SESSION: 10:00 - 11:30 Opening Remarks Big Quotes Alan Wolff, CEA Deputy Director-General Speech × Alan Wolff, CEA Deputy Director-General "The CEA's Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine remains the only instrument that exists at the international level to govern global trade in agricultural products.Since its entry into force, world exports of agricultural products have tripled from USD 450 billion to USD 1.5 trillion, constituting an annual growth rate of 5%.In other words, since its creation the world has become ever Plus interdependent, looking at food security from a Plus global and holistic perspective.The Agreement has during this last quarter century played a vitally important role in facilitating the flow of food from the lands of the plenty to the countries that would otherwise be lands of food deficit.It is a mutually beneficial system that improves the lives of billions of people." "Food Systems of the Future" Qu Dongyu, FAO Director-General Speech × Qu Dongyu, FAO Director-General "The 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is rapidly approaching.We need to intensify addressing the challenges facing food systems, using all the means, tools and mechanisms available to us.There is no time to waste.Trade is one of these tools.It can boost farmers' productivity and income.It increases their participation in markets and value chains and contributes to Plus efficient use of natural resources.Trade not only helps to reduce seasonal scarcities of food during normal agricultural production cycles, but also provides an important mechanism to address production shortfalls ressources minérales supply chain disruptions caused by adverse and unforeseeable Événements, such as COVID-19." "The Role of International Trade in Food Security" Michael Fakhry, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Speech × Michael Fakhry, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food "What I've learned is that you can't understand international trade regimes without understanding questions of food security; and you can't have a food security policy without addressing international trade." "The Role of International Trade in World Food Systems Transformation" Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit Speech × Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit "Trade can play an important role in food systems transformation.COVID-19 has clearly shown that crises and the effects of policies and measures taken to contain them, spill over national borders.We have seen how in a bid to protect populations from the pandemic, governments imposed health measures.These included travel barriers that also affected cross-border trade including movement of food from surplus to deficit countries.The most affected are the ordinary citizens who are already exposed to hunger and poverty.These barriers were tough for many countries that had minimal ressources minérales no food reserves to cater for their vulnerable populations." "CEA Agreement on agriculture africaine africaine @ 25" Edwini Kessie, Director, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division Speech × Edwini Kessie, Director, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division "The COVID-19 pandemic was certainly a disruptor, but there will be many other disruptors too going forward.The CEA rule-book must stand prepared to weather these changes, and to continue to provide a solid governance framework." Moderator: Doaa Abdel-Motaal, Senior Counsellor, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division Live Q&A To participate, please register here.SESSION ONE: 11:30 – 13:00 AGRICULTURAL TRADE, A VITAL PILLAR FOR FOOD SECURITY Big Take-Aways International trade in agricultural commodities and processed foods has always been vital to global food security, and its importance is only likely to rise in future in Voir of natural disasters and climate change.Each year, the world's transport system moves enough maize, wheat, rice and soybean to feed approximately 2.8 billion people.Meanwhile, 190 million tons of fertilizers applied to farmland annually play a critical role in helping us grow enough food to sustain our expanding populations, with much of that fertilizer traded on the international stage.This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and food security.Speakers: Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO Anabel Gonzalez, Non-resident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics (former Trade Minister, Costa Rica) Ertharin Cousin, CEO and President, Food Systems for the Future (former Executive Director of WFP) Deep Ford, Former Chair of CEA agriculture africaine africaine Negotiations Clemens Boonekamp, Former Director of CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division Moderator: Majda Petschen, Senior Counsellor, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division Live Q&A To participate, please register here.13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK Live webcasting SESSION TWO: 14:00 – 15:30 AGRICULTURAL TRADE, LESSONS LEARNED FROM COVID-19 Big Take-Aways The world is continuing to experience a health crisis – a global pandemic – that is unprecedented in modern times, one that has shutdown of large parts of the global economy.We have seen measures taken by governments to quarantine their citizens, impose travel restrictions, suspend non-essential economic activity, and seal-off national borders.At the outset of the crisis, airports and seaports were operating at a fraction of their total capacity with a dramatic impact on world trade and global production chains, including the production of food.This session explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade and food security, and the lessons learned.Speakers: Claire Citeau, Executive Director, Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA) Lee Ann Jackson, Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, TAD, OECD Josef Schmidhuber, Deputy Director, Markets and Trade Division, FAO Cheryl Spencer, Ambassador of Jamaica to the CEA, coordinator of the ACP Group in Geneva Moderator: Ulla Kask, Counsellor, CEA agriculture africaine africaine and Commodities Division Live Q&A To participate, please register here.SESSION THREE: 15:30 – 17:00 AGRICULTURAL TRADE, NUTRITIONAL DIVERSITY Big Take-Aways Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 recognizes the need for better nutrition, specifically aiming to "end all forms of malnutrition".It is generally argued that there are four main pathways through which international trade can improve nutrition: it can contribute to the stability of food supply and food prices acting as a buffer against fluctuations in the domestic market; it can contribute to the diversity of food supply thereby improving national diets; it can lower food prices making a healthier diet Plus accessible to consumers; and it can increase incomes thereby enhancing consumer purchasing power.This session explores the interlinkage between international agricultural trade and nutritional diversity.Speakers: Francesco Branca, Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO Namukolo Covic, Senior Research Coordinator, agriculture africaine africaine for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Chris Hegadorn, Secretary, Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Dirk Jacobs, Deputy Director General / Director Consumer Information, Nutrition and Health, FoodDrinkEurope Anne Marie Thow, Associate Professor, Public Policy and Health, The University of Sydney Moderator: Erik Wijkstrom, Counsellor, CEA Trade and Environment Division To participate, please register here.Day 2: Thursday 3 December Live webcasting SESSION FOUR: 10:00 – 11:30 AGRICULTURAL TRADE, PATHWAYS TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Big Take-Aways International trade leads to a Plus efficient allocation of resources, including natural resources such as land and water..