BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a79a0cce6472 DTSTART:20170928T113000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20170928T130000Z LOCATION:\, Suisse SUMMARY:How can agricultural and fisheries trade contribute towards achievi ng the Sustainable Development Goals? FAO-UNCTAD session at the WTO Public Forum 2017: Behind the headlines CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:​The Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development has shaped a fra mework for global governance that responds to a complex and interconnected global landscape. With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)\, the Age nda recognizes that trade is a key element in addressing fundamental issue s such as food security\, nutrition and promotion of sustainable agricultu re (SDG 2)\, healthy lives and wellbeing (SDG 3) economic growth (SDG 8)\, inequality (SDG 10)\, ocean\, seas and marine resource (SDG 14)\, and glo bal partnership for sustainable development (SDG 17).Agricultural and seaf ood trade play a major role\, particularly in developing countries\, LDCs and SIDs\, in enabling conditions for facilitating structural transformati on\, mobilizing different sources of finance\, and assuring job creation a nd social inclusion.Moreover\, trade contributes to global food security b y balancing food deficits and surpluses across countries\, thereby ensurin g stable supplies and contributing to price stability. Considering the sig nificant risks of climate change to agricultural production and fisheries\ , trade is likely to become even more significant in the future as food de mand grows in regions where productivity gains will not be sufficient to m eet demand growth.However\, in order to assure that the potential of agric ultural and seafood trade is optimally used to achieve sustainable develop ment\, it is important to further reinforce the multilateral trading syste m and ensure that trade policies and strategies are coherent with other en abling national policies (such as agricultural\, health and marine resourc es management etc.).The session will discuss the relation between trade an d the SDGs\, the frameworks where agricultural and seafood trade are curre ntly managed\, and raise questions on how agricultural trade can be better tailored to achieve the SDGs.The questions to be addressed include:What o pportunities trade offers to enable the achievement of the SDGs related to agriculture\, fisheries\, food security and nutrition?How can agricultura l trade and trade in fish be beneficial for sustainability and play an imp ortant role in improving economic growth\, reducing inequality\, address u nfair competition (subsidies) and supporting sustainable development?What can be the effect of plurilateral and regional trade agreements (RTAs) in the agricultural trade framework? Can this support further the implementat ion of the Sustainable Development Goals?How should national complementary policies be managed to ensure that the beneficial effects of agricultural trade are equally shared by countries and populations?How can we implemen t early harvest targets of the SDG 14 (targets 4 and 6) by 2020?<\;p>\ ;​The Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development has shaped a framework for global governance that responds to a complex and interconnected global la ndscape. With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)\, the Agenda recogn izes that trade is a key element in addressing fundamental issues such as food security\, nutrition and promotion of sustainable agriculture (SDG 2) \, healthy lives and wellbeing (SDG 3) economic growth (SDG 8)\, inequalit y (SDG 10)\, ocean\, seas and marine resource (SDG 14)\, and global partne rship for sustainable development (SDG 17).<\;/p>\;<\;p>\;Agricult ural and seafood trade play a major role\, particularly in developing coun tries\, LDCs and SIDs\, in enabling conditions for facilitating structural transformation\, mobilizing different sources of finance\, and assuring j ob creation and social inclusion.<\;/p>\;<\;p>\;Moreover\, trade c ontributes to global food security by balancing food deficits and surpluse s across countries\, thereby ensuring stable supplies and contributing to price stability. Considering the significant risks of climate change to ag ricultural production and fisheries\, trade is likely to become even more significant in the future as food demand grows in regions where productivi ty gains will not be sufficient to meet demand growth.<\;/p>\;<\;p&g t\;However\, in order to assure that the potential of agricultural and sea food trade is optimally used to achieve sustainable development\, it is im portant to further reinforce the multilateral trading system and ensure th at trade policies and strategies are coherent with other enabling national policies (such as agricultural\, health and marine resources management e tc.).<\;/p>\;<\;p>\;The session will discuss the relation between trade and the SDGs\, the frameworks where agricultural and seafood trade a re currently managed\, and raise questions on how agricultural trade can b e better tailored to achieve the SDGs.<\;/p>\;<\;p>\;The questions to be addressed include&\;#58\;<\;/p>\;<\;ul>\;<\;li>\;Wha t opportunities trade offers to enable the achievement of the SDGs related to agriculture\, fisheries\, food security and nutrition?<\;/li>\;< \;li>\;How can agricultural trade and trade in fish be beneficial for su stainability and play an important role in improving economic growth\, red ucing inequality\, address unfair competition (subsidies) and supporting s ustainable development?<\;/li>\;<\;li>\;What can be the effect of plurilateral and regional trade agreements (RTAs) in the agricultural trad e framework? Can this support further the implementation of the Sustainabl e Development Goals?<\;/li>\;<\;li>\;How should national complemen tary policies be managed to ensure that the beneficial effects of agricult ural trade are equally shared by countries and populations?<\;/li>\;&l t\;li>\;How can we implement early harvest targets of the SDG 14 (target s 4 and 6) by 2020?<\;/li>\;<\;/ul>\;\n\nView meeting on unctad.or g\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/how-can-agricultural-and-fisheries-trade-con tribute-towards-achieving-sustainable DTSTAMP:20260810T095836Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR