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Developing country economies are generally very open and active in international trade. While developed countries’ market access conditions are becoming stricter through standards, the multiplication of free trade agreements is exposing still-fragile local production chains to international competition. The regional integration processes underway in many regions of the developing world offer, on the contrary, a framework conducive to the development of intra-regional trade. The challenges facing developing countries are to strengthen their trade negotiation capacities on the multilateral level and in regard to bilateral agreements, and work to attain regional integration targets.

Since 2003, GRET has been supporting developing country actors (public authorities, farmers’ organizations, NGOs, etc.) in these challenges, and keeping a watchful eye on the coherence of developed countries’ public cooperation, trade and agriculture policies with regard to development objectives. To do so, it combines expertise, institutional support in developing countries, and advocacy and lobbying activities in developed countries with other NGOs.

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Enseignement / recherche

Cirad, IRD, Institut des régions chaudes (IRC), Iedes – Université Paris I, Université Paris-
Sud XI (France).

Opérateurs / ONG / Bureaux d’études

membres de la Commission agriculture et alimentation de Coordination SUD (France), Lares (Bénin), Iram et Bureau Issala.

Organisations professionnelles, groupements, organisations paysannes

Fédération des producteurs du Fouta Djallon (Guinée), Réseau des organisations paysannes et de producteurs d’Afrique de l’Ouest, Repaoc.

Collectifs / réseaux spécifiques au thème

C2A de Coordination SUD, groupe de travail sur la régulation des marchés agricoles du Fip, Groupe sécurité alimentaire de Concord, Pac 2013.

 

Cette thématique est animée par Arlène Alpha et Laurent Levard