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2010
Events directly and indirectly related to
agriculturaldevelopment
a project of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on
Agriculture (IICA) and the Technical Centre for
Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
SeptemberNB: Some more info for you!
Mon 06 InternationalPlant Protection
Convention (IPPC)6 10 Sept. 2010Trinidad
The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) is an
international treaty aimedsecuring international cooperation in
controlling pests of plant and plant produ
(phytosanitary) and in preventing their international spread,
and especially tintroduction into endangered areas. The IPPC,
ratified in 1952, was deposited with Director General of the Food
and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) FAO and IICA collaborating to
support this meeting which provides an opportunity for Member
Statethe Caribbean to dialogue on the international standard
setting process for phytosanitmeasures. A total of fourteen
Caribbean countries will be represented at this specialitechnical
meeting. Among the documentation distributed at the meeting
includes thandbooks published by IICA on Good Practices for
Participation in Codex Alimentameetings, and Good Practices for
Participation in Meetings of the IPPC. These documeprovide all the
relevant information necessary to guide participation in meetings
of thtwo important international agencies.
Tues 07Wed 08 IICA Caribbean
Regional Meeting:
ConsolidatingIICAs TechnicalCooperationAgenda. 8-10,Sept.
2010Guyana,
The Director General of IICA, Dr. Victor Villalobos will lead
his first IICA regional meetin the Caribbean. Senior staff members
from IICA Headquarters, as well
Representatives and Regional Specialists from the Caribbean
region will gather to revand internalize the Institutes strategic
plan and new MTP 2010-2014. The meeting also address the
development and implementation of IICAs Caribbean Regional
StrateIICAs leading role in the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA)
and the partnership wthe CARICOM Secretariat and the Caribbean
Agricultural Research and DevelopmInstitute (CARDI) among other
areas.
Thurs
09 10th EDF ActionFICHE on CSMEand EconomicPartnershipAgreement
(EPA)9 10 Sept. 2010Guyana
The European Development Fund (EDF) provides Community aid for
developmcooperation in the African, Caribbean and pacific states
(ACP). On 8 January, 2CARICOM signed a Financing Agreement for a
grant of 40.5M to support Caribbean Region in achieving its
objective of regional economic integration repositioning into the
world economy. This EC funding came from the CaribbRegional
Indicative Programme of the 9th EDF It was then the largest and
mimportant individual EDF package of support to the Caribbean
Region and crucial for advancing work on the CARICOM Single Market
and Economy (CSME
The 10
th
EDF phase is similarly geared toward helping developing
countries, includCARICOM, reap greater benefits from the
globalization process; bocompetitiveness; diversify exports and
establish regional markets. The EconoPartnership Agreement (EPA)
will play a major role in achieving the above. CSME likewise is
designed to facilitate the pooling of the regions finanhuman and
natural resources, with the intent to build strong economic capato
effectively respond to globalization and the emergence of mega
trading bloOver the years, the regions economic and social
development has been severaffected environmental vulnerabilities:-
land degradation; deforestatinsufficient water supplies, fish
stocks management, biodiversity loss, waste toxic disposal and more
recently climate change.
Fri 10 Technical Meetingon 10th EDFCARICOMIntegration andCSME
SupportProgramme10 Sept. 2010Guyana
Sat 11
Sun 12
Also in the month of September:
CDEMA/FAO/IICA/CARICOM Regional workshop on Preadial larceny
(Saint Lucia),
National Agribusiness Risk Management Seminar (IICA
Trinidad)
Small Business Management Training Program (Bahamas),
Meeting of Senior Agriculture an Legal Officials to review the
CAHFSA Agreement (Suriname),
Visits to member states by a team of regional consultants under
the EU/CARIFORUM-EPA Agricultural & Fisheries StuDetails
provided in the respective Week Agriculture Agenda and in the full
monthly calendars which can be viewed on
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