International Conference on Sharing Innovative Agribusiness Solutions, Cairo, Egypt

UNIDO is increasing its efforts towards strengthening agribusiness value chains, expanding developing countries' food supplies and their access to markets, technology and investment. As part of its response, UNIDO is organizing, in cooperation with the Government of Egypt and the SEKEM Initiative, an international conference on sharing innovative agribusiness solutions, to be held in Cairo, Egypt, from 26 to 27 November 2008.  

This conference will bring together agribusiness stakeholders, representatives of public and private technical and financial institutions, international organizations, donors, NGOs and academia to share innovative agribusiness solutions and best practices that can potentially be scaled up and/or transferred to other countries or regions. The conference has four themes, which are described below: (1) Supply/value chains, market access and linkages; (2) Compliance with standards and conformity assessment; (3) Technology and value addition; and (4) Innovative forms of financing.

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