ACP Secretariat

14 September: S/C on Political, Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Affairs

European Parliament

10-13 September: European Parliament plenary session

European Commission

14 September: 2018 Seminar on fisheries science

The next Brussels Development Briefing no. 52 on ”Food safety: a critical part of the food system in Africa” will take place next Wednesday, 19 September 2018 from 09h00 to 13h00, ACP Secretariat, Brussels 451 Avenue Georges Henri, 1200 Brussels.

It will discuss investments in African food safetycapacity to improve public health, food security, and economically beneficial market access for African food producers. It will be organised by CTA, the EC, the ACP roup, Concord and the Global Food Safety Partnership (GFSP).

The 2018 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) just launched.

This report is the fruit of a collaboration between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA).

Key findings of the Report:

Despite recent growth in agricultural trade deficits, there are promising signs of export diversification, both in commodities traded and trade partners, as well as increasing intra-African trade in agricultural commodities.

The Secretariat of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and the government of 115-island Seychelles east of mainland East Africa are organizing a joint event at the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 25, 2018 – enabling Small Island Developing States (SIDS) share experiences in harnessing the blue economy and to identify areas of further development.

The ACP Committee of Ambassadors, the second tier, decision-making organ of the ACP Group, will be presided over by the Ambassador of Chad, H.E Mrs. Ammo Aziza Baroud for the period 1 August 2018 – 31 January 2019. Ambassador Ammo Aziza Baroud took over from the outgoing President, Ambassador Sheila Sealy Monteith of Jamaica, on Tuesday 31 July 2018 at the ACP Secretariat headquarters.