Speech by Lyall Howard, Deputy Director National Farmers' Federation (Australia)
6 July 2001
Thank you for the invitation to speak about current issues facing the world trading system.
I would like to leave you with three messages:
1. The WTO is one of the world's institutions that can help sort out the mess in global agricultural trade that is wasteful of resources, in too many cases harmful to the environment, detracts from food security and hurts the interests of the worlds poor.
2. There has to be a way of sorting out input into the WTO by NGO's that represent a legitimate point of view that will take the world forward.
3. Which NGO's have a legitimate point of view must come from sound principles of governance like transparency of membership and funding; open elections for officials; and open processes for debate and policy development.
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