Strategies for agricultural development The “All ACP Agricultural Commodities Programme” (www.euacpcommodities.eu) was launched in September 2007 as an initiative of the European Commission and the ACP Secretariat. Its roots can be traced to the EU Action Plan on Agricultural Commodities, Dependence and Poverty (COM (2004) 89), the EU-Africa Partnership on Cotton (COM (2004) 87) and a number of ACP initiatives linked to agricultural commodities identified during the Cotonou and Doha negotiations. As a result, this programme fully acknowledges the link between production, value addition and trade in agricultural commodities and poverty reduction.
It has a budget of 45 million euros of which a third is earmarked for the cotton sector.
The main objective of the programme, which ends in December 2010, is to reduce poverty while improving and stabilising the revenues and living conditions of agricultural commodity producers in ACP countries. Given the scope of this goal, an extension of the programme through the end of 2011 is being examined.
04 - 05 November 2009Factoring/Receivable Discounting: A Financing Tool for Agriculture Sector Development - Organized by UNCTAD and the Caribbean Development Bank. Christ Church, Barbados
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30 September - 02 October 2009Improving the Functioning of Commodity Markets in Eastern and Southern Africa through Warehouse Receipt Systems and Market-based Interventions. Lusaka, Zambia Downloads: Workshop Concept Note [PDF] Workshop Programme [PDF]
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