4-5 April 2006, Rome

The objective of the workshop was to explore the issues arising from the changing structure of the various commodity chains, and to guide the future work of the Division in this area. The conference brought together the latest thinking on these issues to provide a stock-taking of the various problems, and more importantly, to identify the policy and technical issues on which there is consensus, and those where further analytical and empirical work is needed.

• Conceptual issues of market structure in agricultural commodity value chains
• Institutional and structural issues in commodity markets
• Farmers and commodity developmen
• Changing market structures and distributional issues