Workshop: Corporate Accountability/Corporate Power & trade policy

14.12.2005: Workshop in Hongkong von Somo, IATP, AAI und WEED über die Konzernagenda im Agrar- und Dienstleistungshandel

How big business benefits from the agriculture and GATS agreements

14 December, 14.00 - 17.00 h. NGO Centre at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Room E

Organised by SOMO and IATP, co-sponsored by AAI and WEED

First part, 14.00-15.30:
Analysis from new research about corporate interests:

How the GATS negotiations impact on sustainable agriculture
How globalisation of supermarkets affects small farmers, with case study on Indonesia
How corporate interests benefit from agriculture and GATS
How food corporations successfully lobby the WTO negotiations

Speakers:

Second part, 15.30 - 16.55: Discussion and preparing further action:

What are participants experiences on the concerns raised?
What messages can be sent to NGOs, politicians and WTO negotiators?
How participants can take up issues of the corporate agenda and the impact of GATS negotiations in their activities?
Planning of further information sharing, activities and action

The analysis and discussions will be based on new reports that will be presented at the workshop:

Who is reaping the fruit? - Critical Issues in the fresh fruit and vegetable sector, SOMO
The impact of GATS on agriculture, IATP
The trade agenda of European agribusiness - The interests of the food sector in current WTO agriculture negotiations, WEED/ AbL
The EU corporate trade agenda - The role and the interests of corporations and their lobby groups in trade policy-making in the European Union, WEED/S2B Network

For further information, contact: Myriam Vander Stichele, m.vander.stichele@somo.nl
http://www.somo.nl