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The GM established its Market Access and Trade (MAT) programme in 2006, in order to include trade processes in its efforts to promote investments into sustainable land management (SLM). The role of SLM in trade processes is highly significant: land degradation poses a very real threat to communities, whose livelihoods depend on natural resources. When local, national, regional and global economies suffer environmental losses, the industrial sector ultimately bears additional costs.

The core activity of the MAT programme lies in the GM’s engagement in the Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative, launched in 2005. AfT aims to help developing countries, particularly Least Developed Countries (LDCs), to overcome their trade development constraints and to use trade as a means to spur sustainable development and poverty reduction.

In this context, the GM focuses in particular on AfT flows to the agricultural sector, with a view to channelling increased investments into SLM. This focus builds on the fundamental role of SLM in determining the quantity, quality and sustainability of agricultural production – in other words the capacity of the agricultural sector to feed the population in developing countries, to generate an income for rural producers and to provide a stable and high-quality supply that meets market demand.

What are the linkages between trade, agriculture and SLM?
What is Aid for Trade?
How is AfT financed?
AfT implementation in LDCs: the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF)
The GM’s engagement in AfT:

For more information

Ms Eleonora Canigiani
Trade & Markets Strategy Officer
Tel.: +39 06 5459 2734
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Ms Susan Bingi
Trade and SLM Advisor
Tel: +256 414 314283
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Mr Salif Touré
Trade and SLM Advisor
Tel.: +223 20 22 34 65
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