• COLEAD Board and General Assembly: 2024 annual report approved, on course for 2030!

    • 15/07/2025
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News
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    On 25 June, COLEAD held its Board of Directors and General Assembly in a hybrid format, bringing together almost 200 members who joined the event online through national members’ meetings. Around twenty countries were represented. This level of participation highlights the network’s increasing vitality and the value placed on direct dialogue between members, teams, and partners. During the meeting, members approved the 2024 annual report and financial accounts. The meeting also provided an opportunity to review progress towards the five… +
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  • Join the COLEAD 2030 movement. Your voice matters! 👉 2030@colead.link

    • 06/05/2025
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News
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    For over 50 years, COLEAD has been working to strengthen sustainable, inclusive and competitive agricultural systems. In 2025, we open a new chapter in our collective history: the development of our COLEAD 2030 strategy. This process will not take place in isolation. On the contrary, it is based on a strong conviction: COLEAD’s future and the future impact of its action will be built with those who bring it to life – team, members, partners, partner-beneficiaries, institutions, practitioners, donors, experts,… +
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  • Access to finance: How to find and identify the right funding source for your agri-project

    • 08/04/2025
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News
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    (The recording and supporting materials are available here: COLEAD Access to Finance webinars) As part of its structured investment-oriented support, COLEAD’s Access to Finance Department held, as part of the FFM+ programme, a webinar on 25 February entitled “ Selecting the right funding options for your agri-project“. This session is the third in a four-part webinar series designed to build the capacity of project leaders to identify, select and approach the most appropriate sources of funding for their activities. Profile… +
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  • Innovations and market trends: what international trade shows tell us about the future of agri-food

    • 08/04/2025
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
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    COLEAD’s Market Insights department, through the FFM+ programme, recently attended several major trade shows – Fruit Logistica, Biofach, Gulfood, IFE – to capture innovations, marketing signals and identify emerging trends. Between product innovation, the rise of superfoods, the shift towards sustainability and the breakthrough of artificial intelligence, the 2025 editions of these shows confirm that the global agri-food sector has entered a new era. Superfoods and well-being Demand for nutritious products is booming, driven by a growing focus on well-being.… +
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  • Understanding EU regulatory changes with AGRINFO

    • 28/08/2024
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News
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    Understanding EU regulatory changes with AGRINFO   The AGRINFO programme was set up to help the EU’s partner countries (listed as low-income, lower-middle income and upper-middle-income economies in the Development Assistance Committee List of ODA Recipients of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)), understand and anticipate the impact of changing EU regulations on their agri-food exports to the European market. In practice, AGRINFO provides EU trading partners with clear summaries of the “what, why and when” of recent… +
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  • COLEACP response to ‘Pesticides – sustainable use’ (updated EU rules)

    • 28/10/2022
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    In September 2022, COLEACP responded to the public consultation on the Regulation of the European Parliament and of The Council on the sustainable use of plant protection products and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2115. In line with COLEACP programmes’ overall goal – to reduce poverty, improve food security and food safety, and ensure sustainable and inclusive growth by strengthening the agri-food export sector – the response focused on the adoption of the Regulation in the context of its potential impact on… +
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  • COLEACP-PAFO session on Business opportunities for African young entrepreneurs in African and European markets

    • 28/10/2022
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    On Wednesday 26 October 2022, COLEACP and the PanAfrican Farmers Organization (PAFO) co-organised a hybrid session on Business opportunities for African young entrepreneurs in African and European markets as part of the 2022 International Young Farmers Summit organised by the PAFO. The main objective of the Summit is to promote, strengthen and spread the voice of young farmers in the international arena. The joint session featured three African young entrepreneurs (see biodata) who are part of COLEACP’s wide network of… +
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  • News Digest: Agri-food Markets, Production and Trade

    • 11/04/2022
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    IMPACTS OF WAR IN UKRAINE EU sanctions against Russia following the invasion of Ukraine The EU has responded to Russia’s military attack against Ukraine by adopting a comprehensive and robust package of restrictive sanctions. The sanctions are listed here. Source: European Commission, 2022 Russian invasion causes South African citrus issues South Africa’s Citrus Growers’ Association (CGA) says it is working closely with exporters, government and other stakeholders across the value chain to mitigate the impact that the Russian invasion of… +
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  • News digest: Agri-food Systems and Sustainability

    • 08/04/2022
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    Climate IPCC issues bleakest warning yet on climate breakdown The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published its latest report on the state of the climate crisis. It states that climate breakdown is accelerating rapidly and many of the impacts will be more severe than predicted. Everywhere is affected, with no inhabited region escaping dire impacts from rising temperatures and increasingly extreme weather. About half the global population – between 3.3 and 3.6 billion people – live in areas… +
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  • Trinidad and Tobago: EUROCHAMTT–COLEACP collaboration

    • 06/04/2022
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Caribbean, News, Trinidad and Tobago
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    The European Business Chamber in Trinidad and Tobago (EUROCHAMTT) and COLEACP have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in delivering group training and promotion of market opportunities to the members of EUROCHAMTT and other fruit and vegetable producers in Trinidad and Tobago. The collaboration will benefit from EUROCHAMTT’s expertise, knowledge and networks in the horticulture sector in Trinidad and Tobago, and COLEACP’s experience throughout ACP countries and at EU level. The focus will be on capacity building and supporting… +
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