Climate-induced weather events impact agriculture and food systems, creating food security problems and increasing the need for an open trading system that can move products from areas of surplus to areas of deficit. Policies that impact climate, food security, and market functions have the capacity to be complementary, enabling and supporting the resilience and sustainability of agricultural and food systems. This project aims to explore policies and policy models that address the nexus of climate change, food security, and an open trading system  in the APEC region.  For example, this workshop could evaluate climate-induced events and climate policy as drivers, and food security as an outcome, with an open trading system  as a mediator and an instrument of global public good as one model. Ultimately, this project will encourage holistic development and implementation of climate policies that consider the impacts on food security and an open trading system  in accordance with the Food Security Roadmap Towards 2030.

Subtopics and workshop sessions can be built around two themes:

a) Promotion of expanded coverage of commodity markets and policy information; and

b) Encouraging climate policy design related to food and agriculture to systematically incorporate considerations of impacts on trade and food security.