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EcoFair Trade Conference organized by Heinrich Böll Stiftung in cooperation with Misereor Tuesday, 12 January 2010
More than a billion people are facing severe hunger worldwide, three quarters of whom live in rural areas. The global food situation tragically illustrates how years of political mistakes and the current hunger, climate and economic crises hit the poorest of the poor the hardest.
Conference Programme / Konferenzprogramm
Global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows rose in 2007, after four consecutive years of growth, by 30%. Especially in developing countries FDI inflows reached their highest level ever. This development causes the attention of economists, scientist, governments, international organizations and the civil society wanting to know what drives this high increases in FDI inflows, whether this is a lasting trend and what the consequences might be. The discussion paper "Foreign Direct Investment in the Agricultural Sector in Ethiopia" explains why this country has arouse the attention of foreign investors.
Creating an Opportunity for Fairer and More Sustainable Food and Agriculture Systems Worldwide
The abridged version is based on the report Slow Trade – Sound Farming- by Wolfgang Sachs and Tilman Santarius
In April 2007, the report Slow Trade – Sound Farming was published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and MISEREOR. This report, which was the result of a process of several years of worldwide dialogue – the EcoFair Trade Dialogue –, calls for a fundamental reform of the world agricultural trade system. Here you can download the summary in various languages!
The EU funded The EcoFair Trade Dialogue. It is a project carried out by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Misereor in cooperation with the Wuppertal Institute. The overall aim of the project is to enrich and influence the debate on the reform of the current multilateral regime of international agricultural trade through the development and advancement of forward looking guidelines and instruments which respond to the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges to global agriculture. [More…]
>> Find some backround articles published by the organizers
The dialogue process involves selected experts, representatives of a broad range of civil society organizations, as well as policy makers. The project started in 2005 as a dialogue within a core group of experts from different regions of the world, the so-called “Expert Panel“. These experts developed reform proposals to be recorded in a set of policy papers. In addition views from policy makers are fed into this dialogue through an “International Consultative Board”. [More…]
>> Expert Panel
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