Ifpri Podcast

This IFPRI Policy Seminar held on February 19, 2020, at IFPRI Headquarters, featuring presentations from Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Head, Latin American and Caribbean Program, IFPRI; Ramiro Costa, Deputy Executive Director of the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange, Bolsa de Cereales; and David Laborde Debucquet, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI; Sofia Perini, Economist, INAI Foundation (Institute for International Agricultural Negotiations), and moderated by Valeria Piñeiro, Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI The 2030 Agenda calls on all countries to use trade to create a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient world. We must ensure that the global trading system actively contributes to sustainability. Trade policies offer an opportunity to promote a broad shift in production and consumption that helps consumers to make better choices. The European Union-Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) free trade agreement, recently announced after 20 years of negotiations, has not yet been ratified. If ratified, it