Contents

• PREFACE
• Agenda of the Seminar
• Consumption
  • EC Quality Standards for Bananas
    Mrs. Bickelmann, Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung
  • Possible Consequences of international standards set by the Codex Alimentarius Commission on the sustainable production of bananas
    Rainer Engels, Germanwatch
  • Biodiversity and Sustainable Banana Production
    E.A. Frison and S.L. Sharrock, International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain
  • Bananas - Exotic Fruits: sozially and ecologically unsound?
    Lázlo Máráz. Pro Regenwald
• Banana Consumption in the South
  • Negros, Phillippines
    Norma Mugar, Alter Trade
  • Ghana
    Kingsley Ofei-Nkansah, Ghana Agricultural Worker's Union of T.U.C.
• Sustainable Consumption
  • WTO - panel and the ec regime
    Anna-Claire chambron, Banana Link
  • Sustainable bananas - a prospective market? Results of the EC consumer survey
    Bettina Burkert, Bananen - Kampagne
  • AGENDA 21
    Hella Lipper, BanaFair
• More market chances for bananas from fair trade - Possibilities and limits,
  • the viewpoint of a german consumer organization
    Mrs. Grunewald, Central Consumer Organization of Lower Saxony
  • the viewpoint of a danisch consumer organization
    Ilse Friis Madsen, Green Families
• Implementation of sustainable consumption
  • Alternative Banana Trade - Pioneers in a niche market
    Rudi Pfeifer, BanaFair e.V.
  • The fair trade label - how to conquer the supermarkets
    Jürgen Tölke, FLO
  • Campaining for codes of conduct
    Alister Smith, Banana Link
  • The process of setting ISO standards and their implication
    Presentation made by Thomas Hirsch on the basis of a policy paper by Monika Egger
• Sustainable Production and Trade - A Panel Discussion
  • Presentation of Arnd Spahn, IG BAU
  • Presentation of Doris Calvo, COLSIBA
  • Presentation of Jaime Rhon Davila, Urocal
  • Presentation of Jeroun Douglas, Solidaridad
  • Final Observations Arnd Spahn (IG BAU)
• An Impression from the South
  • Kingsley Ofei-Nkansah, Ghana Agricultural Worker's Union of T.U.C.
  • Gerardo Vargas, Foro Emaus / Pastoral Social
• Final Conclusions
  Sue Longley, IUF