Descripción del proyecto
Un estudio más detallado del potencial de crecimiento sostenible del comercio agrícola
El comercio agrícola desempeña un papel fundamental en la sostenibilidad de los sistemas alimentarios regionales y mundiales. Para muchos países, el comercio de productos agrícolas constituye la principal fuente de subsistencia y crecimiento económico. El equipo del proyecto MATS, financiado con fondos europeos, estudiará la forma de mejorar el comercio del sector privado a nivel nacional, europeo, africano y mundial. En concreto, se llevarán a cabo estudios de casos en quince países a fin de comprender las condiciones para la sostenibilidad a medida que se comercializan alimentos desde las zonas con superávit a las zonas deficitarias. Los hallazgos proporcionarán información sobre las interacciones entre los mercados agrícolas, el comercio, las inversiones, las políticas, la sostenibilidad ambiental y el bienestar humano. El equipo del proyecto empleará esta información para diseñar un nuevo punto de referencia en el análisis de políticas comerciales.
Objetivo
MATS aims to identify key leverage points for changes in agricultural trade policy that foster the positive and reduce the negative impacts of trade on environmental sustainability and human well-being. Focus is on improving the design, governance and implementation of trade regimes and policies at private sector, national, EU, African and global levels.
The key operational features of MATS are:
a) a set of 15 in-depth country, regional and product case studies to provide a deeper understanding of the conditions for sustainable trade, an integrated multi-model simulation and assessment of linkages with agricultural market, trade and investment dynamics, and an analy-sis of institutional, regulatory and legal frameworks;
b) a multi-stakeholder backcasting approach that builds on recent research related to transformative change and social innovation, and that uses novel participatory methods and platforms to explore transition pathways towards sustainable trade;
c) a clustering with other trade-related research projects to benefit from synergies, and a major role for sector representatives, social movements and policymakers in framing analyses, co-assessing linkages, and deriving policy recommendations.
MATS has the ambition to set a new benchmark in trade policy analysis.
The main project outputs will be:
(1) New quantitative and qualitative insights on the interactions between agricultural markets, trade, investments, policy, environmental sustainability and human well-being.
(2) A set of Discussion Papers and Policy Briefs, incl. recommendations for enhancing the coherence of agricultural and trade policies with the SDGs.
(3) An enhanced civil society–stakeholder–policy dialogue that is supported by an evidence-based communication platform – the Sustainable Trade Hub.
(4) A set of innovative research tools for the analysis of the interactions between agricultural trade, agricultural investments, policy, environmental sustainability and human well-being.
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Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-RUR-2020-2
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
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