Leveraging trade to end hunger

FAO Director-General and Professor Jeffrey Sachs joined discussion on ways to overcome trade-offs on the path to achieving SDG 2

Figure: FAO Director-General QU Dongyu, Professor Jeffrey Sachs.

FAO News - 7 December 2020, Rome - FAO's Committee on Commodity Problems (CCP)

About the CCP

Established in 1949, the CCP is FAO´s oldest technical committee. It consists of 110 FAO Member Nations, plus observers. The CCP normally meets once every two years, additional sessions may also be held upon Members' request.

The terms of reference of the CCP include:

• To keep commodity problems of an international character affecting production, trade, distribution and consumption, and related economic matters under review;
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• To prepare a factual and interpretative survey of the world commodity situation, which would be made available directly to Member Nations; and
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• To report and submit suggestions to the Council on policy issues arising out of its deliberations, and to avail these reports and those of its Subsidiary Bodies to Member Nations for their information.

Subsidiary Intergovernmental Groups

The Subsidiary Intergovernmental Groups (IGGs) of the CCP were established to focus on trade issues for individual commodities. Coverage has shifted over time to reflect changing market and institutional factors affecting commodities – from distribution to new emerging issues, such as surplus disposal and price volatility. 

See http://www.fao.org/ccp/en/