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Project Name :
Analysing Small Island Developing
States (SIDS) Needs in Multilateral Liberalisation in the
Agricultural Sector, Pacific Island Case Study |
Country :
Samoa, Fiji & Tonga |
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Project Location within Country:
Apia, Samoa. Nukualofa, Tonga & Suva, Fiji.
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Name of Client
United Nations Centre for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Geneva,
Switzerland |
Professional staff provided by your Company:
Project Director
Senior Trade Consultant
No. of Staff: 2
No. of Man-months: two |
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Start Date: (Month/Year)
August - October |
Completion Date: (Month /Year)
October 25, 2002 |
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Name of associated firm(s) if any:
None |
No. of man-months of professional staff provided
by associated firm(s):
none |
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Name of Senior Staff (Project
Director/Coordinator: Team Leader) involved and function
performed:
Senior Trade Consultant |
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Detailed Narrative Description of Project:
The World Trade Organisation’s current negotiations on the
Agreement of Agriculture has not considered the impact of
agricultural liberalization on small island developing states. The
United Nations Centre for Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
commissioned three studies for the small island developing states
region which are the Indian Ocean, Caribbean and the Pacific
Islands.
The Study looked at the issues on vulnerability
of the SIDS in terms of trade in agriculture, the marginalisation of
preferences, the impact on agricultural from liberalization policies
and how the SIDs needs could be accommodated in the modalities to be
included in the negotiations of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture.
A presentation of the findings of the study was
made at the Workshop commissioned by UNCTAD in Geneva for Small
Island Developing States |
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Detailed Description of Actual Services provided
by your Company:
The Study involved consultations with Government Officials
(Trade, Finance and Agriculture) in the three countries involved,
regional organizations and private sector companies. |
