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Documents to download:
Preparatory Committee Meeting April 2009 Agendas:
English
Francais
Espanol
Establishment of a Multi-Stakeholder Forum for
Sustainable Banana Production and Trade
Preparativos para el Establecimiento de un Foro de Interesados Múltiples para la Producción y el Comercio Sostenible del Banano
L’établissement d’un Forum multi-acteurs
pour une production et un commerce durables de la banane
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Bringing together the industry’s stakeholders
Latest news:
December 2009: The World Banana Forum has now been convened. Please see the World Banana Forum website for more details.
The second International Banana Conference was convened by a consortium of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in 2005 in order to bring together stakeholders from the entire banana production and distribution chain, to reflect on the difficulties and challenges which faced the industry.
This conference ended with a decision to establish a permanent multi-stakeholder forum to undertake the challenging task of reversing - and indeed raising - declining social and environmental standards across the industry in order to generate a banana industry and trade which are environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.
Since that time a number of meetings have been held, the most important of which were a seminar in October 2007, held at UNCTAD in Geneva, which brought together representatives of CSOs, governments and inter-governmental organizations and an “Industry Workshop”, held in Amsterdam in October 2008, which brought together CSOs and industry representatives (including delegates from 3 of the 5 biggest multinational banana companies). These two meetings confirmed the commitment from key players to participate in the proposed forum. In particular, the Industry Workshop resulted in the creation of a Preparatory Committee with active participation from industry and CSO representatives which will prepare the first forum meeting. Another outcome was the establishment of a working group to prepare a budget and raise funds.
Papers from the most recent Preparatory Committee meeting held in April 2009 and a discussison document outlining the establishment of the forum can be downloaded from the front page of this site in the Forum's three working languages.
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