Making Agricultural Trade Sustainable – Interactive Online Workshop
Making Agricultural Trade Sustainable (MATS) aims to identify key leverage points for changes in agricultural trade policy that foster the positive and reduce the negative impacts of trade on environmental sustainability and human wellbeing. Focus is on improving the governance, design and implementation of trade regimes and policies at private sector, national, EU, African and global levels. In the implementation of MATS, new tools for a systemic analysis, and assessment, of the interactions between agricultural trade, investments, sustainability and development are elaborated and piloted.
In this interactive online workshop, we like to discuss with project-external and internal stakeholders key results of the status-quo analyses and jointly identify key questions and issues for further analyses.
Agenda
10:00-10:10 CET Welcome and introduction to the EU funded MATS project (B. Steiner, University of Helsinki, Finland)
10:10-10:30 CET The role of sustainability goals in trade rules (E. Idsardi, North-West University, NWU, TRADE Research Focus Area, South Africa)
Brief presentation (5min)
Discussant: C. Häberli, World Trade Institure, Bern University (5min)
Open discussion (10min)
10:30-10:50 CET Trends in agri-food trade (A. Rezitis, Agricultural University of Athens, AUA, Greece)
Brief presentation (5min)
Discussant: J. Nalunga, Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) (5min)
Open discussion (10min)
BREAK
11:00-11:20 CET Links between agricultural trade, investments, environmental sustainability and human wellbeing (K. Knickel, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland)
Brief presentation (5min)
Discussant: Shefali Sharma, Director European Office, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)(5min)
Open discussion (10min)
11:20-11:40 CET New orientations in EU level trade policy (J. Clarke, Director International, DG Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission)
Brief presentation (15min)
Discussant: S. Corbalán, Executive director, Fair Trade Advocacy Office (5min)
11:40-12:00 CET Implications for further analyses in MATS (Interactive session using Menti and Klaxoon)
12:00 CET End of the workshop (B. Steiner, University of Helsinki, Finland)
