European Parliament:
April 22-23: European Parliament Committee on Fisheries
European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs
April 23: European Parliament Committee on Development
April 24-25: European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
European Parliament Committee on International Trade
Council of the EU:
April 22: Foreign Affairs Council
April 22-23: Agriculture and Fisheries Council
April 22-24: Informal meetings of environment and energy ministers
April 23: General Affairs Council
ACP:
April 22: S/C on Sustainable Development
April 23-24: Joint ACP-EC Trade Cooperation Subcommittee
April 24: S/C on Investment and Private Sector
April 25-26: Committee of Ambassadors
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The next Brussels Development Briefing will tackle the topic of ‘Food, geography, traditions: Protecting agricultural traditional products’, by looking at the challenges and opportunities for protecting traditional knowledge and registered agricultural products in a sustainable way.
Watch the interview with Christian Borgermeister, Director General of ICIPE - a pan-African research organisation focused on tropical insect science – to find out more about the way the two technologies that they have developed with support from the EU could dramatically improve the livelihoods of resource-poor farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the standard of living of East-Africa pastoralists.
The British government, which has staunchly opposed EU efforts to set gender quotas for corporate management, has warned it could introduce quotas if British companies fail to appoint more women to their boards.
Members of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) should make full use of the standby Facility, made available for capacity building under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU), Clairvair Squires, Chief of the Technical Cooperation Division within the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) said.