2nd Agro Processing Compliance & Trade World Forum UK - 2015

The Agro Processing Compliance World Forum is an international forum for world-class agro-processing companies; key Ministers of Agriculture, Chief Executives, leading Managers, Quality Control and Agric experts globally. The forum was attended by participants composed of Chief Executives of Agro Processing Companies, Government policy makers, machinery manufacturers and experts, resources persons from all over the world. The meeting addresses several issues geared towards ensuring that local producers of processed food would be complaint in the agro processing food chain, taking into consideration pertinent issues that would allow their products to be accepted on the international market 2015.

THEME :
Agro Processing Compliance:A catalyst for national prosperity: Becoming competitive domestically, regionally and globally.

SUB THEMES:
Boosting local production Sustaining economic growth and development Rapid socio-economic transformation 2015

TOPICS
- Compliance- Major tools for increasing and ensuring food safety, quality, public health and food security
- Breaking the Glass Ceiling: The Growth & Impact of Women in Agriculture
- Preventing and Remediating Child Labour in the Agro-Processing Supply Chains: Context,  
- Challenges & Social-Economic Impacts   
- Increasing exports, earning more and fighting poverty through compliance.
- Up-to-date knowledge of compliance requirements for agro-processing.
- Poverty alleviation and self-sufficiency through agro processing compliance.
- Quality seeds through seeds selection as planting material.
- Good agricultural practices and traceability.
- Reducing post-harvest losses and waste.
- Adopting appropriate agro processing technologies.
- Marketing strategies- proper packaging, transportation, storage and preservation.
- High yields, low cost products
- Climate change adaptation for raw material production.
- ICT in agriculture - empowering decision making, compliance, processing, and trade
- Innovative ICT in agribusiness
- Making e-Agriculture and m-Agriculture technology robust and accessible;
- Climate and sanitation: The influences of global warming
- Removal of barriers and enhancement of market access: barriers to African external trade
- Impact of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) policies on African agriculture commodities