GLOBAL SUBSIDIES INITIATIVE

On 3-4 November, the Global Subsidies Initiative held a regional media forum for journalists in Southern Africa, in partnership with the South Africa Institute for International Affairs, the Trade Knowledge Network, and the Inter Press Service. The Forum brought together journalists from across Southern Africa to analyze the ways in which subsidy policies have strengthened, or weakened, food security in the region.

The Southern Africa Media Forum on Subsidies and the Food Crisis was part of a series of regional forums organized by the GSI and IPS. The forums aim to equip journalists with an understanding of how government subsidies function and the impacts they have at local, national and international levels, how they might be optimized, and how journalists can help monitor the use of subsidies so as to hold governments more accountable.

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Presentations

Some successes and failures of African subsidy policies in the agricultural sector Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, CEO of FANRPAN

Africa, Agriculture & the WTO
Hilton E. Zunckel, Director, Trade Law Chambers

Food Insecurity in Southern Africa: Regional Dynamics
Peter Draper, Trade Research Fellow, South Africa Institute for International Affairs