(ACORD)--A Pan African delegation recently travelled to Berlin, Brussels, Madrid, Paris and London to engage European farmers, parliamentarians, civil society and media in discussions regarding the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) both instruments that risk having disastrous consequences on African small scale farmers.
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Roy Laishley (Africa Renewal)--As the world’s economic woes deepen, Africa’s leaders are delivering a strong message to the international community that it must help the continent protect the development gains of recent years. Ahead of the April meeting of the Group of 20 (G-20), a high-level consultative body, African leaders met with its host, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in mid-March to tell him that donors must honour their commitments to increase aid, improve trade access and agree to a fairer, more flexible system of managing international financial affairs.
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(IRIN)--Minister of Food, Forest and Agricultural Policies Luca Zaia, chair of the Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting of the G8 + 5 (the developed countries plus China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico) to discuss the global food crisis, made the comment at a press conference that closed the second day of the conference, according to the G8 website.
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Constance Ikokwu (This Day)--The impact of the global economic meltdown on Africa, preventing fresh debt problems and the response of global financial institutions, will dominate talks at a meeting expected to feature the Nigerian Minister of Finance, Dr. Mansur Muhtar, and his counterparts from other African and Caribbean countries next week.
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