BRICS and the New Geography of Agri-Trade
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Dr ML Jat, Dr Smita Sirohi
Contd from previous issue
SPS and TBT cooperation, equivalence, lower trade costs and digital trade facilitation. India’s leadership can add value by moving this agenda towards implementation through interoperable digital certificates, credible traceability systems, faster regulatory communication and capacity-building for producers and exporters. A second priority is resilient input supply chains. Food trade cannot be separated from fertiliser, energy, feed, seed, logistics and finance. For India, this is not an abstract concern : more than half of its fertiliser and energy imports come from BRICS members, making input security central to agricultural resilience. (To be contd)
Contd from previous issue
SPS and TBT cooperation, equivalence, lower trade costs and digital trade facilitation. India’s leadership can add value by moving this agenda towards implementation through interoperable digital certificates, credible traceability systems, faster regulatory communication and capacity-building for producers and exporters. A second priority is resilient input supply chains. Food trade cannot be separated from fertiliser, energy, feed, seed, logistics and finance. For India, this is not an abstract concern : more than half of its fertiliser and energy imports come from BRICS members, making input security central to agricultural resilience. (To be contd)