ICTSD - Cancun Trade and Development Symposium

Last Update: 07-Jul-2006

Cancun Trade and Development Symposium
Simposio sobre Comercio y Desarrollo, Cancún
Symposium sur le Commerce et le Développement, Cancun

Hotel Gran Meliá , Cancún • September 11-12, 2003

Note: The CTDS is open to the public. WTO accreditation and pre-registration is not required. Click on links below for detailed draft agendas.

	11 September 2003
	Morning
8:30 - 9:30	Opening Session: Making the Case for Development Del Prado Room
	Speakers: Eveline Herfkens, UN Secretary-General’s Executive Coordinator for the Millennium Development Goals Campaign: Speech Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, Oxfam International Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Executive Director, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development Ben Ngubane, Minister of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa: Speech Chair: Sylvia Ostry, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

9:30 - 13:30	Session 1.1: Miro Room	Session 1.2: Murillo Room	Session 1.3: Picasso Room
	IPRs, Trade and Challenges for Development: Substance and Process	Towards a Pro-poor Agenda for the Doha round: The Role of rich Countries and International Donors	Standards and Market Access: Northern Consumers - Southern Producers: The need for an alliance
	Organisers: ICTSD, QIAP, and QUNO	Organisers: CGD and the World Bank	Organiser: CUTS-CITEE

top	Afternoon
13:30 - 14:30	Brown Bag lunch with Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
14:30 - 18:30	Session 2.1: Miro Room	Session 2.2: Murillo Room	Session 2.3: Picasso Room	Session 2.4: Del Prado Room
	Agriculture, Market Access and Livelihoods 1. Is There a Future for Family Farming in West Africa? 2. Agrifood Supply Chains: Impacts of Concentration on Incomes & Livelihoods	Free Trade, Development and Sustainability: Lessons from Mexico	How Can Trade Stimulate Sustainable Development in Agriculture?	Putting Human Development into Trade Negotiations
	Organiser: IIED	Organisers: WWF MPO in collaboration with CEIP, ICTSD, CEC, GDAE	Organisers: Trade Knowledge Network (CAITEC, CINPE, ICTSD, IISD, RIDES, SDPI)	Organiser: UNDP

	12 September 2003
top	Morning

9:00 am - 13:00

Session 3.1:
Miro Room

Session 3.2:
Murillo Room

Session 3.3:
Picasso Room

1. The Global Value Chain Analysis and Poverty Reduction

2. Trade and Export Strategies: Lessons Learnt

Organisers: IISD, RIIA, GDAE, RIS, WRI

Organisers: ECLAC and LATN

Organiser: The Global Value Chain Network

top	Afternoon
14:00 - 18:00	Session 4.1: Miro Room	Session 4.2: Murillo Room	Session 4.3: Picasso Room
	Recovering 'Spaces for Development Policy': Special & Differential Treatment, Innovation, and Sustainable Development	Rules and Institutions for Sustainable Development in Latin America (II)	Post-Doha Marginalisation of LDC Concerns
	Organisers: Christian Aid and ICTSD	Organisers: LATN and ECLAC	Organisers: CPD (Bangladesh) and partners
18:00 - 19:00	Closing Session: Delivering Development: Trade Beyond Cancun and Mercantilism Del Prado Room
	Speakers: Aïchatou Agne Pouye, Minister of SMES and Trade, Senegal Agnes Van Ardenne-van der Hoeven, Minister for Development Cooperation, Netherlands Patrick Messerlin (Millennium Project Taskforce on Trade) Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (invited) Chair: Tariq Banuri, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI-Boston), Tellus Institute, USA Other Invitees to be confirmed.

For more information please contact tds@ictsd.ch.

Programme
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