1st session of the training of trainers and facilitators on good SPS practices for Penja pepper
- 21/12/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Cameroon, News
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As part of the STDF/PG/593 project, a training session has started on Monday 21 December aimed at strengthening the technical and pedagogical skills of experts and strategic actors in the Penja pepper value chain.At the end of this training, the participants will be able to act as trainers and coaches, especially for the training courses planned in the framework of this project. The STDF Cameroon project, led by COLEACP, aim to improve the sanitary and phytosanitary quality of Penja pepper.… +UPCOMING FIT FOR MARKET SUPPORT IN SOMALIA
- 21/12/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News, Somalia
A meeting with representatives of Somali horticultural companies, cooperatives and producers’ associations was organised in December 2020. Inês Bastos (Regional Programme Manager) and Anita Safi Diazila (Project Officer) introduced COLEACP’s ongoing programmes and activities, and learned more about the activities of the different stakeholders. Requests for Fit For Market programme support following the meeting will lead to the signature of Memoranda of Understanding, with subsequent access to group training, to the COLEACP network, and to e-services (e-learning, e-library, e-GAP). In… +Developing Good Practice Guides
- 17/12/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Benin, Guinea, Kenya, Togo, Uganda, Uncategorized
During 2021 COLEACP will be providing a team of expert consultants to support national/regional initiatives to develop Good Practice Guides for horticultural value chains. A Good Practice Guide is intended to help all the different actors working in a particular horticultural sector to produce their crops and products under the best sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) conditions. The Guides will harmonise specifications with international SPS standards and the adoption of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), Good Plant Protection Practices (GPP) and Good… +COLEACP welcomes 100+ new members in 2020
- 17/12/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Uncategorized
During 2020 the association ratified 118 new members. COLEACP’s membership now totals 488, from European Union and 45 countries across the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions. They range from large-scale operators to SMEs. Among the 118 new members, the highest representation is of ACP producer/exporter/processor groups (53%). The remainder comprise a growing number of professional organisations of ACP producers/exporters and horticultural supply chain support organisations (private/public sector & CSOs); also European importers; service providers; associated operators; and training/research centres &… +International Trade Fairs 2021: Expected participation of COLEACP and partners
- 17/12/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: News
Supporting companies attending international trade fairs in the horticultural sector is one of the activities of COLEACP’s Business Development department. In November and December 2020 we asked COLEACP members and partners to let us know which trade fairs they would like to participate in during 2021, to help us prepare for our future participation in trade fairs and other professional events, in person and virtually. The international trade fairs have adapted to the Covid-19 situation by developing new ways of… +Brexit: challenges for ACP horticultural exporters
- 17/12/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: United Kingdom
Following on from COLEACP’s November Brexit workshop and background information document, COLEACP has just published up-to-date information on the Brexit process, and specifically the potential impacts on ACP horticultural producers and exporters. Preparing for the UK’S exit from the EU customs union and single market from 1st January 2021: Challenges for ACP horticultural exporters – Background Information Document N°2 The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU customs union and single market from 1 January 2021 is part of the “Brexit”… +News digest: policy
- 17/12/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Africa, Caribbean, News, Pacific
Global Financing the Sustainable Development Goals The European Investment Bank (10 December)has joined a group of 11 multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the International Monetary Fund to launch the first-ever joint report on Financing the Sustainable Development Goals. The report is released at the end of a critical year, in which the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to reverse progress on the SDGs. In response, the MDBs have collectively mobilised a global response package of US$230 billion between 2020 and 2021 to… +New collaboration agreement between MINADER-CAMEROON and COLEACP
- 16/12/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Cameroon, News
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MINADER) of Cameroon and COLEACP signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 15 December 2020, in the presence of His Excellency Gabriel Mbairobe, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Cameroon, Jeremy Knops, General Delegate of COLEACP, and Jean-Marie Sop, COLEACP Secretary-General. This agreement is part of the Fit For Market SPS programme funded by the European Union. It aims to strengthen the national sanitary and phytosanitary system, and especially the implementation of a… +News digest: Agri-food markets & production
- 16/12/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Africa, Caribbean, News, Pacific
MARKETS: AFRICA Kenya and UK sign trade deal Kenya and the United Kingdom have formally signed a trade agreement ending an era of doing business through protocols of the European Union, from which London will exit at the end of December (FPC Fresh Talk Daily, 9 December). The agreement provides for Kenya’s duty-free, quota-free access to the UK market on specified products, which currently include coffee, tea, fresh vegetables and cut flowers. The deal has also simplified the Rules of… +Group training in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): 2,000 producers reached
- 16/12/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Democratic Republic Of The Congo, News
Since 2018, COLEACP has organised several group training courses in the DRC on food safety management, traceability, integrated crop protection and the safe use of pesticides. In order to measure the impact of this capacity building and to identify additional needs, a survey was conducted between July and October 2020 among Congolese organisations that participated in the various training courses. 18 organisations that benefited from this training each went on to organise between 2 and 13 training sessions, reaching a… +