Forum global sur la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition (Forum FSN)

Les liens entre commerce et sécurité alimentaire bénéficient d’une attention accrue dans les programmes axés sur le commerce et le développement. Le commerce équitable est reconnu comme un facteur déterminant en vue d’atteindre les objectifs du Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030 et l'Objectif Faim Zéro dans le contexte des changements climatiques.

Compte tenu de l’évolution constante des modes de consommation et de production, le commerce mondial de produits agricoles devrait continuer de croître au cours de la prochaine décennie. Le défi consiste maintenant à faire en sorte que l'expansion du commerce agricole œuvre en faveur de l'élimination de la faim, de la malnutrition et de l'insécurité alimentaire à l'échelle mondiale. Ce défi est au cœur de l’appui fourni par l’Organisation pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) à ses États Membres en vue de la préparation d'accords commerciaux, en particulier sous l'égide de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC).

La FAO, en collaboration avec des partenaires clés, organisera et participera à divers événements en marge de la 11ème Conférence ministérielle de l'OMC à Buenos Aires. Nous encourageons fortement ceux qui sont accrédités à se joindre à nous et à participer à l'un des événements mentionnés ci-dessous. Ce sera une excellente occasion de faire part des expériences de vos pays en matière d’atteinte de la sécurité alimentaire et d'amélioration de la nutrition dans le cadre du système commercial multilatéral de l'OMC. 

Today the online discussion: 

“The 11th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC11) and its significance for food security in Africa” is complemented by a live session now ongoing on the Sub Saharan Africa Food Security Portal of IFPRI, at this link: 

ssa.foodsecurityportal.org/forums/wto-ministerial-conference-its-significance-food-security-africa

On the IFPRI portal you can post comments and questions over the next 24 hours and an expert will respond in real time. 

FAO invites those working in policy or research on agricultural trade and climate change to submit papers to be presented at the 2017 International Conference on Climate Change Agricultural Trade and Food Security.

The Conference will bring together policy makers, academics and practitioners to exchange ideas, research findings and experiences on the linkages between agricultural trade and climate change.

The outcomes of these consultations will contribute to FAO’s flagship report, The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO), which will examine the potentials of agricultural trade and trade policies to enhance food security and sustainable agricultural production in the context of a world confronting climate change impacts.

For more information on the call, please see: http://www.fao.org/3/a-bt390e.pdf.

More information on the conference is available here:

http://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-events-new/climatetrade/en/.

To register: http://www.fao.org/trade/registration-form/en/?related=1026667&list=1. 

Registration to the Conference closes on Friday, 20 October 2017.

The latest issue of the FPMA Bulletin FAO/GIEWS monthly report on food price trends at world, regional and country level, with a focus on countries where prices of one or more basic food commodity are at abnormal high levels in main markets, has been released.

Main highlights of this issue are higher international prices of wheat and rice, while at sub-regional level, a general increase in prices of rice in Asia and the new harvests in East Africa are putting downward pressure on cereal prices, which, however, remain at near-record levels.

KEY MESSAGES

• International wheat prices generally increased in June on quality concerns amid unfavourable growing conditions for the 2017 crops in some key producing countries. Export prices of maize remained generally unchanged, while rice quotations continued to increase mainly on account of strong demand.
• In East Africa, cereal prices either remain stable or declined in June with the new 2017 harvests, but remained at near-record levels in several countries. Prices increased sharply in the past several months, due to tight supplies because of drought-reduced 2016 second season crops and concerns about the overall performance of this year’s harvests following poor rains and crop pests.
• In Asia, sustained demand further underpinned domestic prices of rice in exporting countries in June. Elsewhere in the subregion, rice prices rose further and reached record highs in Bangladesh, reflecting losses incurred in the 2017 main season crop, coupled with reduced production and imports in 2016. In Sri Lanka, an anticipated reduction in the 2017 output continued to support prices of rice.

The report can be accessed through the following link:

http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7536e.pdf.

The FAO Trade and Markets Division has released the latest issue of the biannual Food Outlook report, which focuses on developments affecting global food and feed markets.

This issue highlights that for nearly all the commodities covered in the report, markets tend to exhibit a well-balanced situation at the global level. However, in some cases prospects at the country or regional level may diverge from this positive outlook. Furthermore, larger import volumes and rising shipping costs are expected to lift the global food import bill to over USD 1.3 trillion this year, up 10.6 percent from 2016.

The report can be accessed through the following link:

http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7343e.pdf.