CIIA's Press releases

 

Happy New Year 2012

 

09/08/2011 - CIIA stresses the importance of the conference organized in Madrid on September 28 & 29 in Madrid by Spain (country chairing CIIA) and the Netherlands on the topic of food sustainability

 

06/28/2011 - CIIA welcomes Action Plan on Price Volatility decided by Ministers of Agriculture and suggests 2 additions...

 

06/15/2011 - CIIA proposes clarification and standardization of the alarm procedures toward the public...

 

05/17/2011 - CIIA requests that studies be carried out urgently to evaluate losses by food supply chains at the suitable geographical level...

 

05/02/2011 - CIIA notes with interest the proposal to create a World Organization for Agriculture and Food Security...

 

04/11/2011 - CIIA supports transparency in trading of futures in agricultural raw products...

 

03/15/2011 - CIIA proposes setting up 2 food price indexes...
 

02/14/2011 - CIIA supports African producers...

 

12/06/2010 - Reducing the food price volatility is useful for food security but must be accompanied by development policies

The blaze of grain prices this autumn was at the heart of the debate organized by the CIIA on October 18th. If the Director for Agriculture of the OMC defended the free trade to work for food security in the world, the purchasing manager’s wheat Nutrixo group underlined the incurred risks, from lack of transparency of the markets, by the food companies...

 

After the February 27- 28th, 2010 earthquakes in Chile
The Executive committee of the International commission for Agricultural & Food Industries (abridged CIIA in French) received M. Jaime Chomali, chargé d’affaires from Chile in Paris. It examined with him the food companies possible actions...

 

10/21/2008 - For the CIIA the sustainability of food companies remains of topicality in spite of the current crisis
Whereas the blaze of farm product prices paged during the summer 2007, the members of the CIIA had decided to launch a study and to organize a round table on the sustainable development of the food companies during the SIAL fair at Paris...