BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a7996d184e45 DTSTART:20170928T113000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20170928T130000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland SUMMARY:How can agricultural and fisheries trade contribute towards achievi ng the Sustainable Development Goals? FAO-UNCTAD session at the WTO Public Forum 2017–Trade: Behind the Headlines CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development has shaped a fr amework for global governance that responds to a complex and interconnecte d global landscape.\n\nWith the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)\, the Agenda recognizes that trade is a key element in addressing fundamental i ssues such as food security\, nutrition and promotion of sustainable agric ulture (SDG 2)\, healthy lives and wellbeing (SDG 3) economic growth (SDG 8)\, inequality (SDG 10)\, ocean\, seas and marine resource (SDG 14)\, and global partnership for sustainable development (SDG 17).\n\nAgricultural and seafood trade play a major role\, particularly in developing countries \, LDCs and SIDs\, in enabling conditions for facilitating structural tran sformation\, mobilizing different sources of finance\, and assuring job cr eation and social inclusion.\n\nMoreover\, trade contributes to global foo d security by balancing food deficits and surpluses across countries\, the reby ensuring stable supplies and contributing to price stability.\n\nCons idering the significant risks of climate change to agricultural production and fisheries\, trade is likely to become even more significant in the fu ture as food demand grows in regions where productivity gains will not be sufficient to meet demand growth.\n\n\n\n\n\n© Trainer Academy (https://t raineracademy.org/)\n\n\n\n\n\nHowever\, in order to assure that the poten tial of agricultural and seafood trade is optimally used to achieve sustai nable development\, it is important to further reinforce the multilateral trading system and ensure that trade policies and strategies are coherent with other enabling national policies (such as agricultural\, health and m arine resources management etc.).\n\nThe session will discuss the relation between trade and the SDGs\, the frameworks where agricultural and seafoo d trade are currently managed\, and raise questions on how agricultural tr ade can be better tailored to achieve the SDGs.\n\nThe questions to be add ressed include:\n\n\nWhat opportunities trade offers to enable the achieve ment of the SDGs related to agriculture\, fisheries\, food security and nu trition?\nHow can agricultural trade and trade in fish be beneficial for s ustainability and play an important role in improving economic growth\, re ducing inequality\, address unfair competition (subsidies) and supporting sustainable development?\nWhat can be the effect of plurilateral and regio nal trade agreements (RTAs) in the agricultural trade framework? Can this support further the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals?\n How should national complementary policies be managed to ensure that the b eneficial effects of agricultural trade are equally shared by countries an d populations?\nHow can we implement early harvest targets of the SDG 14 ( targets 4 and 6) by 2020?\n\n\n\n\n\n<\;div class="\;row\n\nView mee ting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/how-can-agricultural-and-fi sheries-trade-contribute-towards-achieving-sustainable DTSTAMP:20260810T091601Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR