dialogues sur le commerce
Dialogues sur le commerce des produits alimentaires
Dans le cadre de son initiative "Dialogues sur le commerce", l'OMC lance un dialogue sur le commerce des produits alimentaires en vue d' encourager un débat sur le rôle du commerce international dans la sécurité alimentaire. Des experts issus des gouvernements, d'organisations non gouvernementales, du monde des affaires, des milieux universitaires, de groupes de réflexion et de fondations seront invités à débattre des questions les plus actuelles en matière de commerce des produits alimentaires. Chaque discussion peut être suivie en direct sur cette page. Si vous souhaitez participer au débat, veuillez nous envoyer en temps réel vos questions par courriel à [email protected]. Un enregistrement sera disponible ultérieurement.
Liste complète des épisodes
Principaux enseignements (Volume I, 2020-2022)
Principaux enseignements (Volume II, 2023-2025)
Introduction
Les Dialogues de l'OMC sur le commerce des produits alimentaires ont pour but de lancer un débat sur le rôle du commerce international dans la sécurité alimentaire. Dans le cadre de ces Dialogues, des experts de gouvernements, d'organisations non gouvernementales, du monde des affaires, des milieux universitaires, de groupes de réflexion et de fondations sont invités à débattre des questions les plus actuelles en matière de commerce des produits alimentaires. Chaque année, grâce au système commercial international, du blé, du maïs, du riz et du soja sont transportés en quantités suffisantes pour nourrir environ trois milliards de personnes dans le monde. Parallèlement, l'épandage annuel de 190 millions de tonnes d'engrais sur les terres agricoles joue un rôle crucial en nous aidant à produire suffisamment de nourriture pour assurer la subsistance de nos populations qui s'accroissent et, une grande partie de ces engrais s'échange au niveau international. Les changements climatiques rendront le commerce international encore plus crucial pour la sécurité alimentaire, car, au lendemain de catastrophes naturelles, il servira de courroie de transmission des produits alimentaires entre les pays qui disposent d'un excédent et ceux qui connaissent un déficit. Les Dialogues sur le commerce des produits alimentaires sont conçus pour mettre davantage en lumière la complexité des liens dans le commerce des produits alimentaires et pour offrir un espace sûr pour un débat sur les politiques publiques.
Tuesday 1 April, 2 -3.30 pm CEST
"WTO Trade Dialogue on Food - What's in a Chocolate? Understanding Cocoa Markets and Trade" (C.E.T.)
Tuesday 18 February, 2 -3.30 pm CEST
"WTO Trade Dialogue on Food - AgTech & Global Trade: Bridging the Future of Agriculture" (C.E.T.)
Tuesday 17 September, 2 -3.30 pm CEST
"Shipping Food Across Borders, Navigating the Chokepoints" (C.E.T.)
Wednesday 20 March - 14h - 15h30 C.E.T
"COP 28 and Food Trade – Second Edition" (C.E.T.)
Monday 29 January, 1-2.30 pm CET
"COP28 and Agriculture Trade" (C.E.T.)
Thursday 1 June, 2-3.30 pm CET
“The Black Sea Grain Initiative”
Thursday 16 February, 2-3.30 pm CET
“High Tech Foods and WTO Rules”
Thursday 22 September, 2-3.30 pm CET
“Improved Seed Trade; Unlocking Global Food Security”
Jeudi 30 juin, 14 heures-15h30 CET
“Parlons des Céréales”
Thursday 21 April, 2-3.30 pm CET
Agricultural Trade; The Chokepoints and the Suez Crisis
Special Edition of the Trade Dialogues on Food
Thursday 3 March, 2-5.15 pm CET
Combating Illicit Trade in Food and Food Fraud
14:00 - 15:30
Speakers in High Level Opening Panel
Anabel Gonzalez
Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization (WTO)
Maximo
Torero
Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Jeffrey
Hardy
Director General, Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade (TRACIT)
Tarek
Sharif
Executive Director of the African Union Mechanism for Police Cooperation (AFRIPOL)
Antonia
Marie De Meo
Director, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
Moderated by:
Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Senior Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
15:30 - 15:45
Transitional Break
15:45 - 17:15
Speakers in Technical Panel
Marco
Musumeci
Program Coordinator, UNICRI
John
Spink
Director, Food Fraud Prevention Academy & Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Carmen
Bullon
Legal Officer, Development Law Service, FAO
Jan Mei
Soon
Senior Lecturer in Food Safety Management, University of Central Lancashire
Quincy
Lissaur
SSAFE Executive Director
Co-Moderated by:
Christiane Wolff
Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Melvin Spreij
Head, Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF)
Thursday 20 January 2022, 2-4 pm CET
A Voice for the Future: Youth Engagement in Agricultural Trade
Live streaming
Speakers
Kourtney Hollingsworth
National Youth Coordinator for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of the Secretary
Claire Sterngold
Youth Entrepreneurship Community Manager at the International Trade Centre (ITC)
Luciano Loman
Board Member of the Youth Alliance for Zero Hunger, and Chairman of Nuffield Brazil International Farming Scholars Association
Helen Gyasi
Agribusiness Project Officer at the Netherlands African Business Council
Kathryn Lundquist
Economic Affairs Officer - Economics, Research and Statistics Division at the World Trade Organization (WTO) - MSMEs and E-commerce expert
Jim Leandro Cano
Philippines Country Representative for the Young Professionals for Agricultural Development and Director for Agritech at 8Layer Technologies
Moderator
Gloria Manu
Economic Affairs Officer, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Thursday 28 October 2021, 2-4 pm CET
Exploring the Nutrition and International Trade Nexus
Live streaming
Speakers
Chris Hegadorn
Secretary, Committee on World Food Security
Sumbue Antas
Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Vanuatu to the WTO
Anne Marie Thow
Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Charlie Worthington
Food Specialist, Consumers International
Rick White
Chair, International Agri-Food Network
Erik Wijkstrom
Counsellor, Trade and Environment Division, WTO
Moderator
Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Senior Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Tuesday 5 October 2021, 2-4 pm CET
'Food Miles': Do They Help or Hurt our Planet?
Live streaming
Speakers
Tara Garnett
Director of Table, Oxford Martin Program on the Future of Food
Tim Benton
Director, Environment and Society Programme, Chatham House
Alexander Kasterine
Senior Advisor, Sustainable and Inclusion Value Chains Section, International Trade Center
Yi Fan Jiang
Head of Science and Regulatory Affairs, Food Industry Asia
Gabrielle Marceau
Counsellor for Research on Legal Policy, Economic Research and Statistics Division, World Trade Organization
Moderator
Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Senior Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Thursday 1 April 2021, 2-4 pm CET
Enabling Agricultural Trade; An Independent United Nations Food Systems Summit Dialogue by the WTO Secretariat
Live streaming
Speakers
Marion Jansen
Director, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD
Geeta Sethi
Advisor and Global Lead for Food Systems, World Bank
Arianna Giuliodori
Secretary-General, World Farmers' Organisation
Boubaker Ben-Belhassen
Director, Markets and Trade Division, FAO
Robbert de Vreede
Executive Vice-President Global Foods, Unilever
Berry Marttin
Member of Managing Board, Rabobank (responsible for International Rural and Retail Banking, Leasing, Sustainability)
WTO Representatives on Episode
Michael Roberts
Head, Aid-for-Trade Unit, WTO
Melvin Spreij
Head, Standards and Trade Development Facility
Moderator
Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Senior Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Thursday 25 February 2021, 2-3.30 pm CET
The Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor; What Next for the African Continent?
A joint event by WTO-IFPRI-IISD
For the Background Documents for the Dialogue click below:
Live streaming
Speakers
Chahir Zaki
Associate Professor of Economics (and Co-Editor of the Trade Monitor), Cairo University
Halima Noor
Senior Trade Advisor at the African Union
Elizabeth Nsimadala
President of the Pan-African Farmers Organization and the Eastern Africa Farmers Federation
Xolelwa Mlumbi-Peter
Ambassador of South Africa to the WTO
Edwini Kessie
Director, Agriculture and Commodities Division, WTO
Moderators
Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Senior Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Jonathan Hepburn
Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Thursday 19 November 2020, 2-3.30 pm CET
The AOA@25, Teaser for WTO Agriculture Symposium 2020
Live streaming
Speakers
Sunanta Kangvalkulkij
Ambassador of Thailand to the WTO
Xolelwa Mlumbi-Peter
Ambassador of South Africa to the WTO
Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla
Head of Latin American and Caribbean Program, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Robert Koopman
Director, Economic Research and Statistics Division, WTO
Edwini Kessie
Director, Agriculture and Commodities Division, WTO
Moderator
Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Senior Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
5 November 2020, 2-3.30 pm CET
The Future of Food, Digitalization, Automation and COVID-19
Live streaming
Speakers
Maximo Torero
Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Sean de Cleene
Head of the Future of Food, World Economic Forum
Emma Weston
CEO & Co-Founder, AgriDigital
Oswaldo Loor
Founder and CEO, Shenzhen Drones
Ulla Kask
Counsellor, Agriculture and Commodities Division, WTO
Moderator
Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Senior Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
1 October 2020, 2-3.30 pm CET
Food Trade Policy, the G20, and COVID-19
Live streaming
Opening Remarks
Alan Wolff
Deputy Director-General of the WTO
Speakers
Saad Abdullah Khalil Esa
Economic Advisor, Ministry of Environment, Water, Agriculture (MEWA) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Randal Giroux
Chair of The Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA) Global Trade Policy Committee, and Vice President - Global Regulatory Leader at Cargill
Maximo Torero
Chief Economist and Assistant Director-General of the Economic and Social Development Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Edwini Kessie
Director, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Moderator
Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Senior Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
25 June 2020, 2.00 - 3.30 pm CET
The Disruptors: A Conversation with the Technology Giants Revolutionizing African Agriculture
Live streaming
Speakers
WTO participants
Emmanuelle Ganne
cAnalyst, WTO Economic Research and Statistics Division
“Blockchain, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and the WTO”
Gabrielle Marceau
Senior Counsellor, WTO Economic Research and Statistics Division
“Innovation and the WTO Rule-Book”
Moderator
Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Senior Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Bolaji Akinboro, CO-Founder and CO-CEO, Cellulant Corporation
Bolaji Akinboro & Ken Njoroge have built a pan-African tech company providing a one-stop digital marketplace. Cellulant tackles high market fragmentation and low financial inclusion in Africa by organizing marketplaces with an underlying digital payment infrastructure that solves the problems often faced in Africa by businesses, retailers and consumers. Cellulant now works in 33 African countries, with 94% of its customer base never having used banking before. Its technology is being used as far away as Afghanistan. It relies on distributed ledger technology to create trust throughout the agricultural value chain, from banks, agribusiness, exporters, government agencies, input-sellers, all the way to the farmers themselves.
Onyeka Akumah, Founder and CEO, Farmcrowdy
What if you could invest in Nigerian agriculture from the relative comfort of your own sitting room in Lagos? Onyeka Akumah is making that possible and reshaping agricultural value chains as he does so. The technology entrepreneur is the Founder and CEO of Farmcrowdy, an agricultural platform connecting small-scale farmers to investors with the goal of boosting local food production. The company took off fast, receiving its first investment of $60,000 just a month after launching, but went on to raise $2,000,000 in equity funds over the past three years for its daily operations. Farmcrowdy and the Oyo State government announced a partnership in August 2019 that will involve 50,000 farmers and the company has now crowdfunded over $15,000,000 to work with 116,000 small holder farmers across 17 states in Nigeria, with plans to expand its model across Africa.
Kikonde Mwatela , Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Twiga Foods
Kikonde Mwatela is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Twiga Foods, a technology enabled business-to-business food distribution platform that builds fair and reliable markets for agricultural producers, food manufacturers and retailers based on transparency and efficiency. The company sources products from 17,000 plus farmers across Kenya and delivers them directly to 5,000 vendors per day in Nairobi and its environs. As part of its expansion plan, Twiga Foods is set to build a new state of the art distribution center that will have custom-made cold rooms, conveyors and sorting equipment, enabling Twiga Foods to widen its supply-chain services in Kenya and beyond.
Kamal Yacub, CEO, Trotro Tractor Ltd.
Like most good business ideas, the Uber for tractor hire seems incredibly obvious, but it took Kamal Yakub to make it happen. Like many African countries, Ghana has a majority of smallholder farmers who cannot afford to buy a tractor, but for whom a couple of days of ploughing make a huge difference to agricultural productivity. More than enough to pay for hiring a tractor. Connecting tractors to farmholders via mobile phone is Trotro Tractor’s raison d’être. Yakub has enabled a great leap forward in rural incomes, allowing farmers to make more investments in their land, pay for children’s education, and slow the drift of children to the cities in search of work. He is a great advocate of getting young people into agriculture, saying that this technology makes it far more profitable now to grow crops. “If you used to do two days on an acre with four people, now you use 45 minutes to finish that acre so it allows you to do more,” Yakub told reporters. He is now expanding to Zimbabwe, with other markets in sight.
11 June 2020, 2.00 – 4.00 pm CET
Food Trade Logistics, Navigating the Risks of COVID-19
Joint WTO - World Economic Forum (WEF) Webinar
Speakers
Siddharth Adya
Vice President, Group Cargo Solutions and Platform Development, PSA International
Ertharin Cousin
CEO and President, Food Systems for the Future (former Executive Director of the World Food Programme)
Allan Lerberg Jørgensen
Head of Sustainable Trade, Maersk
Arnaud Petit
Executive Director, International Grains Council
Sheri Rosenow
Counsellor, Market Access Division, WTO Trade Facilitation Section
Lisa Sweet
Head of Future of Protein, COVID Response, and Food Health of the World Economic Forum
Moderator
Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Webcast
28 May 2020, 2.00 - 3.30 pm CET
COVID-19, Flattening the Food Insecurity Curve in Africa
Speakers
Trudi Hartzenberg
Executive Director TRALAC (Trade Law Center, South Africa)
Theo de Jager
President, World Farmers Organization
Junior Davis
Head of Policy Analysis and Research Branch, Division for Africa and LDCs at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Edwini Kessie
Director, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Halima Noor
Senior Trade Advisor, African Union
Moderator
Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Webcast
14 May 2020, 2.00 - 3.30 pm CET
Global Value Chains in Agriculture and Food, in an Era of COVID-19
Speakers
Caroline Emond
Director-General, International Dairy Federation
Paolo Giordano
Principal Economist, Inter-American Development Bank
Charlotte Hebebrand
Executive Vice-President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Nutrien, and former Director General of the International Fertilizer Association
Edwini Kessie
Director, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Matt Kovac
CEO of Food Industry Asia
Daniel Njiwa
Head of Regional Food Trade, Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa
Moderator
Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Webcast
30 April 2020, starting time 2 pm CET
International Trade and Food Security in the Era of
COVID-19
Speakers
Shenggen Fan
Senior Chair Professor, College of Economics and Management, China Agriculture University, and former Director General of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Andrea Gruber
Head Special Cargo, International Air Transportation Association (IATA)
Maximo Torero
Chief Economist and Assistant Director-General of the Economic and Social Development Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Alan Wolff
Deputy Director-General of the WTO
Virtual Remarks
Moderator
Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division
Webcast
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