Above  and beyond their bias towards favoring the strongest over the weakest countries of the world, agricultural trade policies pursued in the last decades have contributed to a massive price decline and price instabilities for agricultural goods as well as to an increase in market concentration and the industrialization of agricultural production at the global level – to the detriment of people and the environment.

At a moment where the suspension of the Doha Round of trade negotiations of the WTO represents the most recent symptom of the failure of current agricultural trade policies, the EcoFair Trade Dialogue presents a reform proposal that wants to contribute to fundamentally rethinking and reshaping these policies.

The EcoFair Trade Dialogue is a project carried out by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in cooperation with Misereor and moderated by the Wuppertal Institute.
The overall aim of the project is to enrich and influence the debate on the reform of the current multilateral regime of international agricultural trade through the development and advancement of forward looking guidelines and instruments which respond to the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges to global agriculture.

In the 1st two years Phase of the EcoFair Trade Dialogue (start: March 2005) a CONCRETE PROPOSAL FOR A NEW FRAMEWORK OF AGRICULTURAL TRADE RULES has been developed via an international dialogue process with the participation of relevant stakeholders throughout the world.

In a 2nd phase of the EcoFair Trade Dialogue (start: January 2007) these reform proposal will be disseminated and further discussed in a series of events following up on the international dialogue. Furthermore it is planned to concretize the proposal through specific implementation proposals.