Agriculture trade: Regional solutions for global challenges

While counting steps to achieve my daily walking goal in the corridors of trade-related organizations in Geneva, I have come across hundreds of negotiators, policymakers, experts and stakeholders on agriculture trade. In my encounters with this myriad of colleagues from across the world, I have come to conclude that we often share common challenges. Three challenges in particular stand out: how to achieve food security, how to move up in agriculture value chains, and how to get access to the global agriculture marketplace.