4th African Grain Trade Summit 2011- Uganda, 13-14 October 2011

The 4th African Grain Trade Summit 2011-Uganda will be the hub of world experts on trade and food security for Africa during the 4th Edition of the Grain Trade Summit to be held on 13th and 14th October at the Speke Resort, Kampala, Uganda. The theme of the summit is “Accelerating Growth in Grain Trade: Opportunities for Strategic Partnerships and Investment”.

The Summit will be seeking to build on the gains thus far and will bring together policy makers, researchers, business players along the grain value chain, development partners and other players from across the globe. Specifically the Summit will be seeking to address:

1. The impact of Policy on Grain Trade in the Region

2. The role of trade in enhancing food security

3. Exploring the establishment of Structured Grain Trade: Progress and Future Expectations including harmonized standards, warehouse receipting and commodity exchanges

4. Financing African Grain Trade: overcoming the challenges

5. Developing the grain value chains: opportunities for investment.

It is encouraging that a number of African countries have signed up to the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development program (CAADP) committing themselves to increasing their budgetary allocations to agriculture to at least 10% and there is more political will to seek sustainable solutions. The summit is therefore underpinned within this new and existing public and private sector programmes in Africa including the USAID’s Feed the Future Initiative, the European Union funded All ACP Agricultural Commodities Programme and other initiatives under the framework of the CAADP process.

 For more information, please click on the following link: http://graintradesummit.com/