Biotrade: A Business Unusual for Partnerships, Profits and Sustainability

Lima, Peru, 21 Sept 2010

Under the Capacity Building for Biotrade Project (CBBT), the UNEP-UNCTAD Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development, in collaboration with the GTZ office in Peru and the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (MINCETUR), organised a series of events on 20-21 September 2010 in Lima, Peru. The three separate events brought together stakeholders from different backgrounds to discuss the business of biotrade and related policy and donor support. These events corresponded with the PeruNatura Fair at Expoalimentaria, which took place later in the week, on 22-24 September 2010.

On 21st September 2010, 15:00 – 19:00, a roundtable on Biotrade: A Business Unusual for Partnerships, Profits and Sustainability, showcased how investing in biotrade makes economic sense, provides opportunities for partnership and can be a catalyst for wealth creation, especially for the poor. By bringing together major investors and businesspeople with representatives of the public sector, the workshop aimed to raise awareness of the benefits of investing in biotrade, inspire public-private partnership and investment, and ultimately, encourage sustainable development.

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Documents and Presentations

	Title	Author	File
	Medidas Sanitarias y Fitosanitarias en la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) y la participación del Perú	Ernesto Guevara Lam, MINCETUR
	Enhancing Synergies between Development Assistance and National Priorities in Namibia	Festus Kapembe, CRIAA SA-DC
	Marco institucional y de política sobre biocomercio en el Perú	Jose Quiñones, Prom Peru
	El Biocomercio y las Negociaciones Comerciales Multilaterales	Ministro Elmer Schialer
	Policies from Nepal: The Process of Developing the National Trade Integration Strategy & Consideration for Bio-trade	Chandra Ghimire, Ministry of Commerce & Supplies Government of Nepal
	La legislación sobre Novel Food de la Unión Europea: impactos en el biocomercio	Claudia Solano, Prom Peru
	Capacity Building for Biotrade: A joint project of UNEP-UNCTAD CBTF and GTZ	Asad Naqvi, UNEP
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	Workshop Report	.
	Enhancing Synergies between Development Assistance and National Priorities in Namibia	Festus Kapembe, CRIAA SA-DC
	Las denominaciones de origen y el comercio de productos de la biodiversidad	Claudia Fernandini, Clarke & Modet

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