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Working Committee on Agri-Business & World Markets
Objectives:
The PBEC Working Committee on Agri-Business & World Markets seeks to take leadership role in promoting the benefits of an open and efficient food trading system in growing wealth for all economies in the Pacific Basin. The Agri-Business & World Markets Working Committee will provide business-driven solutions to infrastructure and regulatory impediments to freer trade in the region.
Accomplishments:
- Supported and participated in the newly-created High-Level Policy Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology in the APEC forum.
- Organized an informative biotechnology conference in Mexico City, Mexico in February 2002, bringing important policy and scientific issues to the forefront of regional discussions, following on from a leading regional biotechnology conference in Hawaii, USA in March 2000 which kicked off the regional business discussion of agricultural biotechnology.
- Participation in APEC Research, Development and Extension of Agricultural Biotechnology meetings as business representatives and speakers.
- Developed and disseminated best-management practices in the poultry value chain. This study examines six of the poultry value chain's constituent links: logistics, finance, tariff and non-tariff barriers, production and processing, food safety, feed grain distribution and poultry transportation and distribution. Through regional conferences in Manila, Philippines and Bogota, Colombia, PBEC has leveraged these industry-led best practices to help concretely build an APEC Food System.
- Convened seminal conference that formed basic principles of the APEC Food System.
Future Actions:
- Participate and support APEC Agricultural Technical Committee work through government liaison and participation as appropriate.
- Co-partner with the World Agriculture Forum and the National Center for APEC to bring together regional Agriculture Ministers to discuss the APEC Food System and other issues.
- Develop future conferences on poultry value chain issues.
- Participate in Codex Alimentarius meetings as observers and continue to strengthen coordination with PECC on food safety issues.
- Expand work program to include activities that strengthen agricultural trade policy in the region.
Leadership:
Committee Chair:
Raymond Cesca
President
GAEA International (PBEC US)
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