European Parliament:

18-19 March: EP Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development; EP Committee on Development;
20 March: EP Committee on International Trade
21 March: EP Committee on Fisheries

European Council:

18-19 March: Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRI FISH)
19-21 March: Meeting of Directors of Rural Development Agencies
21 March: Meeting of the Environment Council (ENVI)
21-22 March: General Affairs Working Group

ACP:

19 March: ACP Members of the Committee on Political Affairs; ACP Members of the Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment; ACP Members of the Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade; Bureau of the ACP Parliamentary Assembly
20 march: 31st Session of the ACP Parliamentary Assembly
21-22 March: Committee on Political Affairs; Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade; Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment

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‘The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 will certainly not be met by 2015. However, we have a lot of cases - close to 40 - of countries which approach to the goal.
Africa unfortunately is the region with the fewer number of good performers, and overall is not set to meet the goal’ (Kostas Stamoulis, director of the Agricultural Development Economics Division at FAO).

On 4th March 2013, CTA, the ACP Group, the European Commission and CONCORD, celebrated the 30th Brussels Briefing.

On 4th of March took place the 30th edition of the Brussels Briefing on “Agricultural resilience in the face of crisis and shocks”, organized by CTA in collaboration with the ACP Secretariat, the EC/DEVCO, Concord, and IFPRI at the European Economic and Social Committee, in Brussels.

MEPs voted on Wednesday 13 March to adopt a controversial Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for 2014-2020 that proved a setback for those who lobbied for stronger environmental measures and the death of farm subsidies, including those on sugar.