Awareness Raising and Training

2008 Events

• TSPN Conference - Assessing Costs, Benefits and Impacts of Compliance with Agriculture, Forestry and Food related Standards  Berlin, Dec 9 - 10 , 2008.
  The purpose of the conference was to highlight an array of different approaches/ methodologies currently being applied for the assessment of costs, benefits and impacts of standards, examining their applicable scope, advantages and disadvantages and identifying major challenges in their application and interpretation of results. The meeting was organized by the Trade Standards Practitioners Network with the support of the World Bank, GTZ and other organizations.
  
  
• High Level Conference on Government Use of Voluntary Standards, Geneva, October 16 - 17, 2008
  During the conference, experiences where voluntary social, environmental and food safety standards are being used by public authorities (at local, regional and national levels) around the world to deliver on their public policy objectives would be illustrated. The conference is organized by the ISEAL Alliance and the Trade Standards Practitioners Network, with the support of the World Bank. More information is available at the ISEAL website.
  
  
• E-Learning Course - Standards and Trade: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Country Agro-Food Trade, Washington D.C., June 2 - 27, 2008
  
  
• Emerging Agro-Food Standards: Enhancing the Public and the Private, Washington, D.C., February 22, 2008

2007 Events

• Consulatative Workshop: Investment in Laboratories for Food Safety & Agricultureal Health, Geneva, November 15 - 16, 2007
  
  
• African Smallholders and the Challenge of Assured Compliance: What Have We Learned From Our Interventions?  Washington, D.C.,  June 19 - 20, 2007
  The workshop was organized by the Work Bank and the Trade Standards Practitioners Network and was attended by 40 participants representing 18 practitioner organizations. The workshop aimed share lessons learned from implementation experiences in the context of small farmers’ compliance with standards.
  
  
• E-Learning Course: Standards and Trade: Challenges and Opportunities for Africa Agro-Food Trade, May 14 - June 15, 2007
  • Final Report (pdf - 320k)
    

2006 Events

• Regional Workshop on the Importance of Rules of Origin and Standards in Regional Integration, Boao, Hainan, Province of China, June 26-27, 2006 
  
  
• Thematic Group Session: Rural Infrastructure, Markets and Finance (RIMFI), February 28, 2006
  
  
  
• Standards and Trade e-Learning Course: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Country Agro-Food Trade, January 30, 2006 - March 24, 2006 (7 weekly sessions) Course Outline (pdf - 38k)

2005 Events

• Workshop on Linking Small-Scale Producers to Markets: Old and New Challenges, December 15, 2005
  
  
• WBI/Unervisity of Roma Pre Training Course on Global Agricultural Trade & Negotiations, Rome, October 10-14, 2005, Presentation (pdf - 709k)
  
  
• Standards and Trade: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Country Exports, April 11 - May 27, 2005
  
  
• Small-scale Producers in Changing Food Markets, The World Bank, 6 April 2005
  
  
• The Role of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Standards in Trade, The World Bank, 6 April 2005
  
  
• Small-scale Producers in Coordinated Supply Chains, The World Bank, 31 March 2005
  

2004 Events

• Workshop on Smallholder Producers in Coordinated Supply-Chains, The World Bank, December 8, 2004
  
  
• The Challenges and Opportunities of Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary Standards - Costs and Benefits of Compliance, Expert Meeting for Asia, Beijing, China, November 20, 2004
  
  
• International Food and Agribusiness Association (IAMA) 14th Annual World Food and Agribusiness Forum, Symposium and Case Conference on June 12 - 15, 2004, Montreux Convention Center, Montreux, Switzerland
  
  
• Workshop on Standards, The World Bank, March 2004
  
  
• Ongoing Dialogue Series on SPS/TBT Standards for Exporters in South Asian Countries, A Collaboration between the World Bank’s Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), South Asia Private Sector and Finance (SASFP) and the India Development Foundation (IDF)
  • List of Participants (pdf - 56k)
    
    
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) International Portal on Food Safety, Animal and Plant Health

Last updated on Dec 30, 2008