Seminar on
Agricultural Trade Policy and Sustainable Development: 
Experience from India and Other Countries

Date

Rajat KATHURIA, Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER Ricardo MELÉNDEZ-ORTIZ,Chief Executive, ICTSD

Chair: Ricardo MELÉNDEZ-ORTIZ, Chief Executive, ICTSD

India’s agricultural trade policy: adapting to new and old challenges
Anwarul HODA, Chair Professor, ICRIER

Recommendations for future policy directions
Ashok GULATI, Chairman, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP)

Discussants:

Abhijit DAS, Head and Professor, Centre for WTO Studies

Chair: Sudhanshu PANDEY, Joint Secretary, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Trends in agricultural domestic support worldwide, and their sustainable development implications
Lars BRINK, Senior Fellow, Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network

Discussants:

Vijay Pal SINGH, Director, All India Rice Exporters Association 

Chair: Ricardo MELÉNDEZ-ORTIZ, Chief Executive, ICTSD

Reorienting agricultural domestic support around environmental goals: the experience of the European Union
Alan SWINBANK, Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Reading

Discussants:

Anandajit GOSWAMI, Coordinator, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) 

Chair: T. NANDA KUMAR, Member, National Disaster Management Authority

The role of agricultural trade policy in pursuing social goals
Shekhar SHAH, Director General, NCAER

Agricultural trade policy and food security
Kirit PARIKH, Chairman, Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe)

Discussants:

Chengal REDDY, Secretary General, Consortium of Indian Farmers’ Associations (CIFA)
Joseph GEORGE, Policy Analyst, CUTS International