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The European Commission – the Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMES is organizing  a focused event on EU-Sub Saharan Africa that will see the participation of European and African companies, clusters and Institutions.

This conference will discuss how food and agricultural markets can become more stable, and what policies and regulatory frameworks should be implemented to make world food systems more efficient, sustainable and predictable.

The Aspen Forum at Expo programming will feature a series of workshops, panel discussions, interviews, dinner events and tutorials to foster dialogue, aggregate ideas, and showcase innovations in food security, nutrition, global health, sustainability in the challenge of Expo: Feeding the Planet.

The objective of the seminar is to demonstrate that Geographical Indications (GIs) are not a European concept aiming at creating obstacles to free circulation of goods but a worldwide phenomenon contributing to the development of rural areas and facilitating trade at global level.