Trade and Sustainable
Development Area

Reflecting FARN's decision to intensify the investigation and focus of work on the relations between trade, environment, investment and development, the Area of Trade and Sustainable Development was set up within the Foundation in June 2003. The Area was basically set up on the basis of a set of projects and activities being undertaken by the Area of Research and Training, and which initially set the direction for this new field of action.

The objectives of the Trade and Sustainable Development Area are:

1. to disseminate information and promote spaces for discussion on the issues of trade, investment and environment, focusing on the need for predominantly intersectorial participation;
   
   
2. to undertake projects of multidisciplinary investigation that may generate critical information, e.g. sectorial research to assess the sustainability of agreements, plans, programs and trade policies; and
   
   
3. to promote initiatives that interrelate production and commercial activities with their environmental aspects in order to secure sustainable development.

Trade and integration

Corporate social responsability