• SHOULD FRESH PRODUCE IMPORTS INTO EUROPE BE BANNED? THE FAIRMILES CONSORTIUM IS BROADENING THE DIALOGUE NEEDED FOR GREATER CLIMATE JUSTICE.

    • 13/05/2024
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News
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    SHOULD FRESH PRODUCE IMPORTS INTO EUROPE BE BANNED? THE FAIRMILES CONSORTIUM IS BROADENING THE DIALOGUE NEEDED FOR GREATER CLIMATE JUSTICE. The event, which took place both online and in person in Brussels on Tuesday 30 April, brought together more than 200 representatives from retail, food companies, NGOs and government to explore the following issues: The impact of airfreighted fresh horticultural products from developing countries. Climate justice considerations for companies’ net zero strategies To ban or not to ban: should we… +
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  • Tanzanian Horticultural companies trained in Food Safety Management

    • 05/09/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Corp EN
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    The Fit for Market Plus programme recently organised a four-day collective training session on “Principles of Food Safety Quality Management System and Traceability” in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, specifically in Njombe, from the 22 to 25 August 2023. This training aimed to enhance the skill and capacities of the technical and compliance staff of horticultural companies, including farm managers, agronomists, production managers, harvesting managers, processing and packaging managers and quality and traceability managers in Food Safety Quality Management System… +
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  • Strengthening fruit and vegetable exports and SPS in Togo

    • 20/12/2021
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: News, Togo
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    On 27 August, 40 representative of member companies of the Association of Producers, Processors and Exporters of Vegetables and Fruit of Togo (APROTELF) met in Lomé. Those attending the meeting included representatives of horticultural companies, the Plant Protection Directorate and GIZ/ProDRA (the German Development Agency’s Rural Development Programme). Participants discussed the status of fruit and vegetable exports from Togo. The country primarily exports pineapples, leafy green vegetables and some other local products to Europe. Togo’s fruit and vegetable exports to… +
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  • News digest: Agri-food markets and production

    • 26/10/2021
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Africa, Avocados, Bananas, Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Gambia, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Mangoes, Mozambique, New Zealand, News, Onions, Pacific, Papayas, Rwanda, Senegal, Spain, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom
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    AFRICA Building resilient food systems in Africa – Declaration at the 11th AGRF The 8,300 participants of the Eleventh African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) came together in Nairobi, Kenya from 7 to 10 September 2021 to call for and plan action on building resilient food systems in Africa.  “Here at the AGRF, we have heard a strong call for Africa and the world to change the way we produce, process, market, consume food, and reduce waste. We know that a… +
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