• COLEACP’s “Guides to Good Practice” development

    • 24/09/2020
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Kenya, News, Uganda
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    COLEACP’s Fit For Market programme is providing training to local experts in developing horticultural sector Good Practice Guides with value chain stakeholders, to support compliance with SPS standards. Local experts are benefiting from a three-part training course to master the many and varied hard and soft skills that they will need. Following on from successful completion of online training (Phase 1), yesterday we held the inception meeting for Phase 2 – training will begin next week to strengthen the experts’… +
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  • Update on plant health rules for fresh capsicum exported to the EU

    • 01/07/2020
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Africa, Cape Verde, Madagascar, Mauritius, News, Uncategorized
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    An update of COLEACP Guidelines on the Export of Capsicum from Africa, Madagascar, Cape Verde, and Mauritius  has just been published. This guide explains clearly what needs to be done to ensure that capsicum exports are in compliance with EU phytosanitary requirements. It details the information to be provided, and actions to be taken, at all stages from production to export by producers and exporters, as well as by the national authorities and inspection services. The document has been updated… +
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  • Digital training on identification and management of false codling moth

    • 29/06/2020
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Citrus fruits, News, Sierra Leone
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    COLEACP’s digital training on the identification and management of false codling moth began in Sierra Leone in late June 2020, for participants from both the public sector (NPPO inspectors) and private sector (horticultural producers and exporters). In the first virtual meeting, trainer Mr Samuel Muchemi explained the digital training, and participants introduced themselves and asked questions.… +
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  • National workshop for the development of an action plan to strengthen the SPS control system for horticulture products exported to the EU from Zimbabwe

    • 10/03/2020
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: News, Zimbabwe
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    As part of its Fit For Market programme, COLEACP and Zimbabwe’s Plant Quarantine and Plant Protection Services Institute held a workshop in Harare for key public and private actors in horticulture to identify priorities and build a 3-year action plan for compliance with the EU SPS regulations.… +
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