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Trade Policies (WTO-EPA)

• Update on EPAs agreements

  What happens to Economic Partnership Agreement?

• Documents of west Africa CSOs on the EPA

• Critical issues in the EPA negotiations

  An EU CSO discussion paper.
  August 2009

• Land grab

  The Special Rapporteur on the right to food of the UN, Mr. De Schutter, has issued a press release and a briefing note on the human rights challenges of large-scale land acquisitions or leases

• New land grab website

  GRAIN is launching a new website on the global land grab for outsourced food production.
  3 June 2009

• "Land grab or development opportunity?"

  Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa.
  Report edited by FAO, IFAD, IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
  May 2009

• Africa could lose big in Economic Partnership Agreements with EU

  Aileen Kwa, March 2009 (IPS)

• Europe and U.S. bear special responsibility for food crisis, new report finds

  Key steps identified to shift course and create a just and sustainable global food system

• New report by UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter.

  Published on February 4, 2009

• Knowledge Share Fair for Agricultural Development and Food Security

• Undercutting Africa: Economic Partnership Agreements, forests and the European Union’s quest for Africa’s raw materials

  EPA impact on deforestation rates, subsistence farming and food security,
  R. Hall, 2008

• ICCO announces the report "Dialogue of the Deaf"

  An assessment of Europe’s developmental approach to trade negotiations - Christina Weller - September 2008

• Contentious issues in IEPA negotiations: implications and questions in the agricultural sector

  Special Report: "Contentious issues in IEPA negotiations: implications and questions in the agricultural sector"
  October 2008

• EPAs will benefit Europe at the cost of both ACP and Latin American Countries

  16/06/2008
  Da un articolo di Yash Tandon, Direttore Esecutivo dell’istituto di ricerca South Centre di Ginevra

• Déclaration finale de la deuxième édition du Forum Social du Burkina Faso

  Ouahigouya (Province du Yatenga) les 27, 28 et 29 mars 2008

• Appel aux chefs d’etat de la CEDEAO sur le processus d’elaboration du TEC

• Lisbon Declaration - EU Africa Summit

  Lisbon, 8-9 December, 2007

• The africa-eu strategic partnership

  A Joint Africa-EU Strategy
  Lisbon, 8-9 December, 2007

• Towards peoples alternatives in Africa and Europe

  Africa – Europe alternatives, Lisbon, 7-9 december 2007

• Ouagadougou Declaration

  West African Parliamentary Conference on the process of negotiating the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union
  10 December 2007

• Civil Society Organizations statement on the joint conclusions of the 1st East-Africa Community-EuropeanCommission meeting on negotiations on an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)

  14th november Brussels

• Kigali Declaration

  in the context of the approaching 31 December 2007 deadline for the negotiation of Economic Partnership Agreements
  The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, meeting in Kigali (Rwanda) from 19 to 22 November 2007

• MPs statement on the ongoing Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations

  East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) and National Parliaments in East African countries,
  Entebbe, Uganda from 15-16 October 2007

• EPA interim agreement - A Dangerous Trojan Horse!!!

  Southern African civil society organisations campaigning on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), meeting in Gaborone, Botswana, from 20-22 November 2007

• L’agriculture de l’Afrique de l’Ouest a le droit d’être protégée!

  Les paysans de l’Afrique de l’Ouest peuvent se réjouir. La notion de souveraineté alimentaire gagne du terrain. Des politiques agricoles se mettent en place. Toutes affirment avoir pour objectif la promotion de la souveraineté alimentaire. Après le Sénégal et le Mali, voici la Guinée qui se dote d’une politique agricole dénommée "La nouvelle politique nationale de développement agricole vision 2015".
  Koudougou, le 7 novembre 2007
  Maurice Oudet Président du SEDELAN
  abc Burkina n° 255

• EPA’s “light” still spells darkness for our economies – Network of African trade unions speak out

  Nairobi, November 7, 2007

• ACP farmers condemn the new European negociation approach

  The networks of the farmers’ organisations of the African , Carribean and Pacific (ACP) regions (PROPAC, ROPPA, SACAU, EAFF, WINFA); gathered in workshops on Friday and Saturday 2nd and 3rd of November 2007, in the Ibis Accor Hotel in Brussels (Belgium) have condemned the new two tier approach of the European Commission for the conclusion of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA), because it does not conform with the Cotonou Agreement.

• One Minute to Midnight: Is There Still Time to Rethink EPAs?

  German Marshall Fund of the United States
  October 2007

• The World Bank’s WDR 2008: Agriculture for Development <br />Response from a Slow Trade - Sound Farming Perspective

  by Sophia Murphy and Tilman Santarius
  Discussion Papers No. 10 / October 2007

• Civil Society Organisations’ comments on ESA EC text to ESA negotiators

  October 2007

• Crossing development red lines?: Toward a technical analysis of implications of EC proposals for EPA provisions

  Summary report of a roundtable discussion, 13 September 2007, Brussels

• Réunion Extraordinaire des Ministres des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, membres du Comité Ministériel de Suivi des Négociations de l'APE

  Abidjan, le 05 octobre 2007

• La dichiarazione di Coldiretti sugli APE

  27 septembre 2007

• Conclusions et recommandations de la retraite du groupe africain des ambassadeurs de Bruxelles

  Oostende 25 – 26 aout 2007

• EPA Declaration by organised non state actors in the CEMAC region, following seminar on 4-5 July 2007 in Douala and the foundation of a CEMAC platform by civil society actors

• Call to join EPA demonstration on Monday 16 July in Yaounde at 9am at the occasion of ministerial EU-CEMAC meeting attended by Commissioner Mandelson and Michel

• Revue de presse - Lundi 2 au samedi 14 juillet 2007

  numéro 289 - Levée de boucliers contre les APE

• Decision on the status of negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union – doc. ex.cl/358 (XI)

  July 2007
  AU Summit decisions on EPAs, stating "the impossibility of completing EPA ratification process by the end of 2007"

• Briefing Paper 23 - June 2007<br />Economic Partnership Agreements: What happens in 2008?

  The EU-ACP trade negotiations are running out of time and all the available options are unpalatable or difficult

• Concluding EPA Negotiations - Legal and institutional issues

  E.C.D.P.M. European Centre for Development Policy Management - june 2007

• Mt. Bentick Declaration

  Declaration of the representatives of the people of the Windward Islands, emerged out of the massive rally organised by WINFA, CPDC and OXFAM at Mt. Bentick Bay Road in Georgetown on Sunday June 3, 2007

• Rapport de l’Atelier sur Les enjeux des Accords de Partenariat Economique (APE) entre l’Union Européenne et la CEDEAO

  (Centre Aoua KEITA- Bamako/Mali -du 15 au 17 mai 2007)

• Statement from the Side Event “Economic Partnership Agreements: working together for regional integration and food sovereignty”

  Held in the context of the Sixty-sixth Session of the FAO Committee on Commodity Problems - 24 April 2007

• Atelier d’information et de plaidoyer sur les APE

  notes d’introduction aux debats cres Bamako, 19 – 20 septembre

• Comunicado de imprensa do Ministro da Indústria e Comércio de Moçambique (MIC), António Fernandes a França

• Accord de Partenariat Economique : Plus de 8.000 signatures pour dire non a l’echeance du 31 decembre 2007

• Agriculture and Development in the EPA Negotiations

  Uno studio a cura del "Swedish Board of Agriculture International Affairs Division"
  December 2006

• Towards Development-Enhancing Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)

  Transcription of the presentation made to the seminar on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) organized by InWent in Berlin, on 27-28 April 2006

• The Economic and Welfare Impacts of the EU-Africa Economic Partnership Agreements

• Lettera ai Presidenti di Regione

• Bozza di delibera che vorremmo vedere approvata dalla conferenza Stato-Regioni

• Observations et propositions du groupe de travail OP sur le document de politique agricole regionale de la cedeao (ecowap)

  5/1/2005

• Quelle politique agricole régionale dans le contexte des accords commerciaux internationaux (OMC et UE-ACP)?

  (Ndiogou Fall, Président du ROPPA Rome le 25 Mai 2005 )

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