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Google news / ACP agriculture, trade

EU-ACP: building new trade and development partnerships - EUcommerz
13 03 2010

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EU-ACP: building new trade and development partnerships
EUcommerz
These agreements fully liberalised trade in goods on the EU side – by eliminating the last remaining barriers for ACP exports (mainly agricultural ones), ...

Crunch time for EU, EAC trade talks - Daily Nation
13 03 2010

Crunch time for EU, EAC trade talks
Daily Nation
The EPA is structured to introduce reciprocity in the trade arrangement between the EU and African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. ...

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Growing interest in vegetables opportunities for small farmers - Trinidad News
11 03 2010

Growing interest in vegetables opportunities for small farmers
Trinidad News
... is directly contributing US$2010023 while the European Union through the All Agricultural Commodities Programme of the ACP is contributing US$634830. ...

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ACP-EU Trade / Library items


Knowledge sharing on ACP-EU trade, a joint initiative by the ECDPM and ECORYS, with the support of AIF and DFID.

Development Progress in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa
11 03 2010 UNU WIDER Working Paper, February 2010

Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development: Development Agendas in a Changing World
11 03 2010

European and SADC EPA region stakeholders discuss benefits of EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement in Maputo.
04 03 2010 Flash news from EU Trade

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IATP / Publications


Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Mar. 11, 2010: NAFTA: Fueling market concentration in agriculture (fact sheet)
11 03 2010 This fact sheet includes testimonies from farm group representatives in the U.S., Canada and Mexico on the role of the... [PDF]

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Mar. 9, 2010: Farm to school in Minnesota: A survey of school foodservice leaders (report by IATP and MSNA)
09 03 2010 A survey school nutrition directors on the growth, interest and obstacles of farm to school programs in Minnesota. [PDF]

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Feb. 3, 2010: Beyond the USDA: How other government agencies can support a healthier, more sustainable food system (report by Maggie Gosselin)
04 02 2010 USDA is not the only federal body influencing what, and how, food is raised and consumed in the United States:... [PDF]

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EC / External Trade / News


Latest news, documents and links on Trade and Development from the European Commission

Trade Conference 16 March 2010 - EU Trade Policy towards Developing Countries - What place for small developing countries in a diverse world – differentiation versus inclusiveness?
02 02 2010 The 2003 Cancun Ministerial was an early demonstration of the shift towards a new and more multi-polar set of geo-economic and geo-political realities, which was visibly confirmed most recently in Pittsburgh when Leaders designated the G20 as the premier forum for international economic cooperation among the advanced industrialized countries and rising powers. According to World Bank President Robert Zoellick "we must recognize that developing countries are key to the solution today, progress tomorrow, and prosperity in years to come." EN

EU Trade Policy towards Developing Countries - Challenges and opportunities for the next years - Info sheet
02 02 2010 Information sheet for the Conference of 16 March 2010, Brussels EN

EU Trade Policy towards Developing Countries - Challenges and opportunities for the next years - Programme
02 02 2010 Programme for the Conference of 16 March 2010, Brussels EN

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Audio: Chairperson Walker’s opening statement, 1 February
13 03 2010 Consultations useful and more needed, farm talks’ chair reports — Agriculture negotiations from 1 to 12 February 2010 saw some useful consultations on remaining issues, New Zealand Ambassador David Walker, who chairs the talks, reported to delegations at the end of the fortnight.

Audio: Chairperson Walker’s summary of his consultations, 12 February
13 03 2010 Consultations useful and more needed, farm talks’ chair reports — Agriculture negotiations from 1 to 12 February 2010 saw some useful consultations on remaining issues, New Zealand Ambassador David Walker, who chairs the talks, reported to delegations at the end of the fortnight.

Audio: Chair’s concluding comments
13 03 2010 Industrial goods negotiations focus on “priority” non-tariff barriers — The chairman of the Negotiating Group on industrial goods (NAMA), ambassador Luzius Wasescha, of Switzerland, reports on a “good discussion” on the priority NTBs (autos, electronics, remanufacturing and labelling of textiles, clothing, footwear and travel goods), and the Horizontal Mechanism to prevent and solve disputes, after an intensive “NAMA week”.

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Eldis / Trade Policy

Responding to the threats that trade and trade rules pose to human rights
01 10 2009 This concise and simply-worded guide to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), published by 3D, contains pointers for individuals and groups concerned with ...

Promoting generic medicines to lower prices and improve access to medicines in low income countries
01 10 2009 In Colombia there are about 20 million inhabitants who lack adequate access to medicines, either because they do not belong to any health insurance system ...

Understanding access to medicine as a human rights issue
01 10 2009 An estimated 29.4 million adults and children live with HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the fact that new combinations of antiretroviral therapy ...

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USDA / Foreign Agricultural Service / News


The ten most recent News Releases from the US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service

USDA EMPLOYEE MICHAEL CLAYTON RETURNS FROM REBUILDING IRAQ’S AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
12 03 2010 The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) today announced that Michael Clayton, a district conservationist with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Princeton, Ky., has returned from a 16-month voluntary assignment in Iraq to help rebuild that country’s agricultural sector.

PRIVATE EXPORTERS REPORT SALES ACTIVITY FOR CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA
12 03 2010 Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity:--Export sales of 220,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2010/2011 marketing year; and--Export sales of 116,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to South Korea during the 2009/2010 marketing year.

USDA AMENDS GSM-102 CREDIT GUARANTEES FOR EXPORT SALES TO THE SOUTHEAST ASIA REGION
10 03 2010 The U.S. Department of Agriculture today amends availability of the following credit guarantees for sales of U.S. agricultural commodities under the Commodity Credit Corporation's Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) for fiscal year 2010. Additional Amount Available: $125 millionGeographical Area: Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and VietnamWith today’s announcement, a total of $225 million has been made available to the Southeast Asia Region during the fiscal year 2010.

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USDA / Economic Research Service / News


News from the US Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service

Farm Business and Household Survey Data: Customized Data Summaries from ARMS
24 11 2009 This data-delivery tool has been updated with 2007 crop production practices data for cotton, 2006 crop production practices data for rice and revisions to the 2006 crop production practices for soybeans. It also includes estimates of 2008 finances, structure, and characteristics of U.S. farm businesses and farm households. Use this interactive tool to create tailored reports on agricultural production technology, farm business and farm household viability, and the structure of U.S. agriculture from the latest ARMS data.

Ethanol and a Changing Agricultural Landscape
19 11 2009 The Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 established specific targets for the production of biofuel in the United States. Until advanced technologies become commercially viable, meeting these targets will increase demand for traditional agricultural commodities used to produce ethanol, resulting in land-use, production, and price changes throughout the farm sector. This report summarizes the estimated effects of meeting the EISA targets for 2015 on regional agricultural production and the environment. Meeting EISA targets for ethanol production is estimated to expand U.S. cropped acreage by nearly 5 million acres by 2015, an increase of 1.6 percent over what wouldotherwise be expected. Much of the growth comes from corn acreage, which increases by 3.5 percent over baseline projections. Water quality and soil carbon will also be affected, in some cases by greater percentages than suggested by changes in the amount of cropped land. The economic and environmental implications of displacing a portion of cornethanol production with ethanol produced from crop residues are also estimated.

Household Food Security in the United States, 2008
16 11 2009 Eighty-five percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2008, meaning that they had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households (14.6 percent) were food insecure at least some time during the year, including 5.7 percent with very low food securitymeaning that the food intake of one or more household members was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food. Prevalence rates of food insecurity and very low food security were up from 11.1 percent and 4.1 percent, respectively, in 2007, and were the highest recorded since 1995, when the first national food security survey was conducted. The typical food-secure household spent 31 percent more on food than the typical food-insecure household of the same size and household composition. Fifty-five percent of all food-insecure households participated in one or more of the three largest Federal food and nutrition assistance programs during the month prior to the 2008 survey.

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