Outreach in Eastern Africa

The Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) is hosting the IGTC Secretariat for two weeks in their Nairobi offices, offering the chance to build relationships and collaborate on grain trade priorities. In addition, the IGTC took the stage to make a key note speech at the EAGC Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday, 20 April alongside the World Bank, Kenyan Government officials, and grain trade leaders from the entire region.

The EAGC is the IGTC’s foremost association member in Eastern Africa, covering Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Burundi, Tanzania and South Sudan, and will soon expand beyond into Ethiopia, the DRC and Zambia. The EAGC is leading a number of business-critical initiatives in the region, including the ‘Business-2-Business’ fora, which allow producers and companies to come together to collaborate on market discovery and contracts. In April, the Ethiopia B2B event took place, resulting in the signature of 51 contracts of 275,000MT among 50 buyers from 6 countries and 40 sellers from Ethiopia.

IGTC global webinars on plant breeding innovation

Exclusively for the IGTC’s plant breeding innovation policy team, a series of webinars is taking place with experts from around the world to inform IGTC thinking and strategy going forward. The first will take place this Wednesday, 26th April with Gregory Jaffe, Director of the Biotechnology Project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). Coming up will be sessions with experts from Japan, EU and Australia.

To join the plant breeding innovation policy team and attend the seminars, please write to the IGTC Secretariat: secretariat@igtcglobal.org

Deadline 30 April: Feedback on IGTC MRL work plan

Are you interested in the impact of MRL setting on the global trade of grains, oilseeds and other agri-bulks? Do you wish to see a stronger voice of the international grain trade in policy discussions among industry and government decision makers? The IGTC is consulting its participants on a strategic work plan in this area. The deadline for comments to the draft work plan and policy document is 30 April. If you wish to participate and join the 10 grain trade leaders already establishing the IGTC policy team, please get in touch with the IGTC Secretariat: secretariat@igtcglobal.org

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