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How to include environmental and social conditions
Authors: Hannes Lorenzen
This paper is written as a discussion paper within the framework of the project “EcoFair Trade Dialogue. New Directions for Agricultural Trade Rules” (www.ecofair-trade.org).
The EcoFair Trade Dialogue is an international project carried out by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in cooperation with MISEREOR and moderated by the Wuppertal Institute. 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. Since the beginning of 2005 the EcoFair Trade Dialogue has brought together a group of 11 advisers on agriculture and trade issues from around the world, the so-called Expert Panel, to exchange views, work intensively together and make innovative and feasible proposals for a profound reform of the international agricultural trade regime. During 2006 a series of stakeholder dialogues in different regions of the world are being conducted to bring additional expertise to the process, and ground the group’s proposals in local and regional experiences. A concrete and coherent reform proposal that responds to the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges for global agriculture is envisaged as the outcome of the project at the end of 2006.