Trade and Sustainable Development Area
Production and sustainable trade

In order to impel initiatives that inter interrelate the productive and trade activities with the environmental aspects in a sustainable development framework, our Area has dealt with the following issues:

Sustainable Agricultural Development
Our goal is to promote the research and discussion of a sustainable agricultural pattern in which they converge a strengthened State -which defines and implements public policies in short, medium and long time deadlines and that apply the regulation in force-, a responsible agro industrial productive chain -which promotes a proactive conduct regarding a social and environmental sustainable behaviour-, an academic sector -which provides the framework or scientific living- and an informed and compromised community demanding that behaviour.

Our activity has been channelled through the formulation of different research proposals. In the local area, we have proposed the investigation and analyses of the legal and institutional frameworks that fit in the phenomenon of the agricultural border expansion in Argentina. In the meantime, at a regional level and together with other not governmental organizations we have presented the need to evaluate the impact of the soy productive chain for our countries and for the region.

Clean Production and Sustainable Consumption
Regarding this issue, the objective has been the promotion of actions tending to modify the present patterns of production and consumption, because they represent a serious threat for the environment and for the quality of life. The activities have been oriented, on the one hand, towards the formulation of a project proposal that prompts the construction and definition of a strategy of responsible consumption in our country; and on the other hand, towards an effective participation in the Advisory Counsel of the Clean Production and Sustainable Consumption Unit created in the ambit of the Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Nation.