
About the Author: Robert D. Hormats serves as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs.
I just returned from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Hawaii, where I participated in the announcement of a public-private partnership to create the world’s first Global Food Safety Fund. To be managed by the World Bank, this innovative partnership will engage a wide-range of stakeholders in training programs designed to enhance food safety and to facilitate trade. Programs like this help protect the health and safety of all of our citizens, because we’re all connected in the current era of global supply chains, international trade, and the foreign sourcing and manufacture… more »