The overall aim of this project is to enrich the debate on the reform of the current regime of global agricultural trade through the development and advancement of forward looking guidelines and instruments, taking the concepts of ‘food sovereignty’ and ‘sustainable agriculture’ as reference points.

 
A concrete and coherent reform proposal, which responds to the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges to global agriculture, is envisaged as the outcome of the EcoFair Trade Dialogue. The economic, social and cultural human rights, sustainability and gender equity being the normative basis for its development.

 

By molding this reform proposal via an international dialogue process, the project wants to contribute to a learning process and consensus building among NGOs and the scientific community, as well as to the empowerment of the advocates of food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture. Through the discussion of the proposals with political decision makers and opinion leaders, the project intends to promote an improved linking of normative and civic demands with political decision-making, and to influence policy-making processes on agricultural trade in the medium and long term.