By Cyber Era NG Staff
EBRD Agribusiness team is inviting guests to a webinar in its Agribusiness Talks series entitled “Digital Solutions for Agricultural Trade” on Wednesday January 18, 2023 – from 14:00 to 16:00 GMT.
Attendees will learn how digital technologies can and are helping to lower trade costs by making agricultural and food trade more efficient and transparent.
High trade costs are an obstacle for economies to participate in global value chains and reap the benefits of economic growth. This is especially true for agricultural products, where trade costs tend to be higher than for manufactured goods. It is estimated that the trade costs of non-tariff measures are more than double those of tariffs, and the cost of phytosanitary measures and technical barriers measures together account for approximately 1.6 per cent of global GDP.
A considerable portion of trade costs are derived from inefficient and expensive means of exchanging, verifying, and approving data in trade documentation, which are mostly in paper format and rely onmanual clearance processes.
The EBRD representative moderating will be Associate Director, Regional Head, Agribusiness, EBRD, Wojtek Boniaszczuk.
According to the organizers, opening words will be given by the followings:
- Regional Head for CEEN/Ukr/Mol/Bel/Mong/Cauc, Agribusiness, EBRD, Wojtek Boniaszczuk, Presentation: “Taking stock of digitalisation in agricultural/food trade in the EBRD economies of operation”
- Senior Economist, FAO, and Mischa Tripoli, Economist, FAO, Dr. Ekaterina Krivonos
Panel discussion dwelling on: Where is the sector going, and how can companies prepare and benefit? Will be shared by:
- Head of Commercial, Covantis Sorin Albeanu
- Chief Information Officer at Louis Dreyfus Company, Guy-Laurent Alpino
- Head of Sector, TRACES-IMSOC, Dr. Helene Klein
- Senior Economist, FAO , Dr. Ekaterina Krivonos
- Economist, FAO, Mischa Tripoli
