Susan Bingi is Trade and Regional Advisor at Global Mechanism, a specialized body of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. In this interview with ECDPM’s Francesco Rampa, head of the Food Security programme, she speaks on a number of these themes, including:

- Working with ECDPM on regional integration

- The implementation of activities and the framework of CAADP as an opportunity to strengthen links between trade and agriculture

- Regional integration process to help small holder farmers

- Private sector investment

- How the process is likely to bring concrete progress; feasibility of the value chain approach to integrate the private sector.

- The involvement of donors and assistance – financial and co-assistance

- The role of emerging economies

- Is Uganda benefitting from being in the Eastern African regional community?