New EcoFair Trade Discussion Paper

 

Creating an Opportunity for Fairer and More Sustainable Food and Agriculture Systems Worldwide

In 2008, agricultural commodity prices on world markets reached their highest levels in 30 years. In some cases, the nominal prices set new records.Some of the policy mistakes are seemingly not directly related to agriculture, but have had a profound impact on production choices, and on what kind of food is available, and to whom.The authors believe that if governments aim to resolve the crisis by focusing on reducing prices back to pre-2005 levels, not only will they have missed a vital opportunity to strengthen food security and agriculture but they will also quickly find themselves back in crisis, as the underlying problems with global food and agriculture make themselves increasingly apparent.

 

  "Discussions Paper No. 11: The Global Food Crisis" by Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte and Sophia Murphy

  Study of Heinrich Böll Stiftung: High Commodity Prices – Who gets the Money?

  The Homemade Food Crisis

 

Summary of the EcoFair Trade Dialogue report

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!

 English   German   Indonesian

 

About the EcoFair Trade Project

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

 

 

Dialogue Process

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
>> Regional Consultations
>> Consultative Board

 The EcoFair Trade Project is funded by the EU Commission * EuropeAid Program.

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