• Bolivia • Brazil • Colombia • Costa Rica • Ecuador • Peru • Uganda • Venezuela • Vietnam •
At the national level, the BioTrade
Initiative assists developing countries
in the formulation and implementation of National BioTrade Programmes. It focuses on countries which
are rich in biodiversity and whose governments have a clear interest in developing a
national capacity to promote biotrade.
National BioTrade programmes promote trade and
investment in products and services derived from
native biodiversity. These programmes
seek to strengthen institutional capacity in order to:
- develop supportive policy frameworks for biotrade; and
- provide concrete technical assistance to biotrade
initiatives and other economic actors.
Creating BioTrade National Programmes
Since its launch in 1996, the efforts of the BioTrade Initiative of
UNCTAD have assisted developing countries in the creation of their own
BioTrade National Programmes.
BioTrade National Programmes already created:
| December 1999 |
Colombia |
| November 2001 |
Ecuador |
| June 2003 |
Bolivia |
| July 2003 |
Peru |
| June 2005 |
Uganda |
BioTrade National Programmes in formulation phase:
| 2004 |
Brazil Task Force |
| 2004 |
Venezuela |
| April 2005 |
Costa Rica |
Document on UNCTAD's approach to establishing
BioTrade National Programmes:
BioTrade
national programmes
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