ICTSD Outputs and Activities on Fisheries, Trade and Sustainable Development

• Regional Dialogue on Trade, Fisheries Negotiations under WTO/EU-ACP EPA and Sustainable Development in West Africa, 19-20 June 2007, Praia, Cape-Verde. Organized by ICTSD in collaboration with ENDA DIAPOL, Ministry of Fisheries of Cape Verde, INDP, Cape Verde, and REPAO.
  

• Strategic Dialogue:Untangling Fisheries And Trade: Towards Priorities For Action, 9-10 May 2005, Geneva, Switzerland. This dialogue brought together experts and policy-makers with the aim to assess options for integrating the sustainability dimension under negotiations at the WTO and explored additional trade-related factors that will impact on the sustainability of fishing communities and resources.
  
  
• Policy Dialogue: Towards development-oriented fisheries subsidies disciplines at the WTO, 21 October 2005, Geneva, Switzerland. This dialogue focused specifically on fisheries-related negotiations at the WTO, drawing together the research carried out for this project as well as other work being done in this area with a view to identifying concrete policy options and implications for the ongoing negotiations in the lead-up to Hong Kong with a particular focus on the development dimension.
  
  
• ICTSD-UNEP-WWF Dialogue: Development and Sustainability in the WTO Fishery Subsidies Negotiations: Issues and Alternatives, 11 May 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.
  
  
• ICTSD-FAO-CPD-ComSec Dialogue: Fisheries and Trade - Exploring Opportunities For Advancing Sustainable Development, 15 December 2005, Hong Kong Trade and Development Symposium, Hong Kong.
  
  
• ICTSD Café & Croissants Dialogue: Finding Common Ground in the WTO Fisheries Subsidies Negotiations, 18 February 2005, Geneva.
  
  
• ICTSD-IUCN-UNEP dialogue: Assuring Trade Rules Affecting Fisheries are Supportive of Sustainable Development, 23 October 2000, Geneva.
  
  
• ICTSD Roundtable: International Trade, Fisheries and Sustainable Development - Linkages, Synergies and Tensions, 15 March 1999, Geneva.
  
  

Publications

• Fisheries, International Trade and Sustainable Development: Policy Discussion Paper (October 2006): This document pulls together the research outputs and the discussions at the dialogues and evaluates policy options and recommendations for the ongoing fisheries subsidies negotiations as well as broader discussions on sustainable fisheries and trade.
  
  
• A series of issue studies: The issue studies will aim to identify knowledge gaps, innovative solutions and priority areas for action related to a range of issues at the intersection of fisheries, trade and sustainability.
  
  
  • Fisheries Access Agreements: Trade and Development Issues, by Stephen Mbithi Mwikya, ICTSD, April 2006.
  • Trade and Marketplace Measures to Promote Sustainable Fishing Practices, by Cathy Roheim and Jon G. Sutinen, ICTSD and HSTF, May 2006.
  • Market Access and Trade Liberalisation in Fisheries, by Mahfuz Ahmed, ICTSD, June 2006.
  • Aquaculture: Issues and Opportunities for Sustainable Production and Trade, by Frank Asche and Fahmida Khatun, ICTSD, July 2006.
  • Untangling Subsidies, Supporting Fisheries:The WTO Fisheries Subsidies Debate and Developing-country Priorities, by John Kurien, published by ICSF with the support of ICTSD, July 2006.
    
    
• Compilation of Selected WTO Members' Positions on Fisheries Subsidies, ICTSD, March 2006.
  
  
• Fish for Thought. 1999. This ICTSD-IUCN publication explores issues at the intersection of fisheries, international trade and sustainable development.
  
  
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