• Information session on the new EU Regulation on organic production and labelling of organic products (EU 2018/848)

    • 15/12/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Caribbean
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    The Fit For Market SPS programme, in collaboration with the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), organised an information session specifically designed for the Dominican Republic on the new EU Regulation on organic production and labelling of organic products (EU 2018/848), and its implications for the certification of producer groups. This event took place online on 1 December 2022. The session was opened by Escipión Joaquin Oliveira Gomez, Assistant Secretary General, Sustainable Economic Transformation and Trade, Secretariat of the Organisation… +
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  • October 2022, review of the COLEACP mission to Cameroon

    • 12/12/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Cameroon
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    A team from COLEACP – Margaux Muyle (Senior Project Officer), Dorothée Vandeleene (Project Officer – Training Department) and Gisèle Mizero (Project Officer – Technical Assistance) – visited Cameroon from 5 to 14 October 2022 for the closure of the “Project to improve the sanitary and phytosanitary quality of Penja pepper to promote its access to international markets” (STDF/PG/593). The COLEACP team took this opportunity to review the actions carried out with the existing partner-beneficiaries of the STDF SPS programme, to… +
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  • Meetings with Malagasy universities and research centres

    • 28/11/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Madagascar
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    During a mission organised to launch the Fit For Market+ programme in Madagascar, a COLEACP team met with professors from the entomology and chemistry departments of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Tananarive, the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques (Agriculture and Sustainable Development Department) and the Ecole Supérieure Professionnelle Agricole de Bevalala, in order to discuss collaboration opportunities. Claire Perez, a project manager in COLEACP’s Training Department, presented COLEACP’s e-learning training platform and the e-Library to undergraduate and… +
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  • COP 27: our future is in the hands of the agricultural and food industry

    • 15/11/2022
    • Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    Over the past decades, agriculture has continuously expanded and enhanced its productivity to ensure food security and food safety to the growing global population in an unsustainable way. This has led to the loss of natural ecosystems, declining biodiversity and increasing greenhouse gas emissions1. The global agrifood system, which includes food production, processing, packaging and transport, is responsible for one of the largest shares of greenhouse gas emissions2 and thus is an important contributor to climate change. However, promoting more… +
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  • COLEACP attending the 6th African Diaspora Agrofood Forum in Brussels

    • 14/11/2022
    • Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
    • Category: Africa, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, News, Senegal
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    On Friday, 21 October 2022, COLEACP took part in the 6th African Diaspora Agrofood Forum (ADAF), organised by The Food Bridge vsw and hosted by the Brussels city hall. This annual forum brings African Diaspora entrepreneurs, policymakers and expert in the African agrifood sector together to highlight the latest trends and potentials for growth in the agrifood sector. COLEACP contributed to the organisation of the event through the FFM SPS and FFM+ programmes funded by the European Union within the… +
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  • FFM+, already nearly 400 requests for support

    • 02/11/2022
    • Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
    • Category: Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, News, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda
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    390 applications for support for the FFM+ programme
    To date, 390 applications for Fit For Market Plus (FFM+) support have been filed by various organisations from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. In order to further promote this new programme and meet potential partner-beneficiaries, a series of launch events and activities have already been organised in Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Togo and Uganda. More launch events will also be organised in the coming weeks and months. In Uganda, the launch of the FFM+ programme took… +
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  • COLEACP-PAFO session on Business opportunities for African young entrepreneurs in African and European markets

    • 28/10/2022
    • Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
    • 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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  • FFM+ in Nigeria

    • 28/10/2022
    • Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
    • Category: News, Nigeria
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    The launch of FFM+ in Nigeria, on 23 September 2002, provided an opportunity for COLEACP’s partners in the country and Nigerian horticultural system stakeholders to learn more about the new programme. FFM+ aims to bring together private and public stakeholders and disseminate robust and up-to-date information, research and training content to the industry. In Nigeria, actions under FFM+ will be targeted towards providing support to implement quality management systems for food safety and high-quality produce; training on crop protection strategies;… +
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  • #WorldFoodDay: Agrifood SMEs and businesses contribution to leaving no one behind

    • 16/10/2022
    • Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    The World Food Day 2022 highlights the increasing interlinkages of economies, cultures, and populations with its theme “leave no one behind”. Global health, planet and political challenges call for global solutions that include guaranteeing the access and availability of nutritious food, as well as reducing food losses and waste. These solutions should specifically be designed and adapted to rural populations as they are the most vulnerable to food and climate crises, with 80 % of the extreme poor living in… +
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  • COLEACP celebrates businesses and SMEs empowering rural women

    • 15/10/2022
    • Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    The International Day of Rural Women, celebrated the day before the International World Food Day (on 16 October), acknowledges women’s significant contributions to agriculture food and food safety, as well as the rural economy in all regions of the world. Women represent, on average, 43 percent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries from 20 percent in Latin America to 50 percent in Eastern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.1 They are a significant entrepreneurial force as owners of farms, input… +
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