Fwd: [paepard] 3rd African Union – European Union Agriculture Ministerial Conference: Promoting sustainable regional agricultural value chain

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SUBJECT:
[paepard] 3rd African Union - European Union Agriculture Ministerial
Conference: Promoting sustainable regional agricultural value chain

DATE:
2019-06-21 18:43

FROM:
"Francois Stepman" <fstepman@gmail.com>

TO:
"Platform for African - European Partnership in Agricultural Research
for Development Phase II (PAEPARD II)" <PAEPARD@dgroups.org>

REPLY-TO:
"Platform for African - European Partnership in Agricultural Research
for Development Phase II (PAEPARD II)" <PAEPARD@dgroups.org>

> 21 JUNE 2019. Rome. The 3rd African Union - European Union Agriculture Ministerial Conference: Promoting sustainable regional agricultural value chains [1]

Building on the results of the successful previous conference in 2017,
around 450 invited high-level representatives and stakeholders from
Africa and Europe debated today [7]on how to further unlock the
potential for a positive rural transformation and an inclusive and
sustainable agriculture and agri-food sector in Africa.

Building on the results of the successful previous conference in 2017,
around 450 invited high-level representatives and stakeholders from
Africa and Europe debated [7] on how to further unlock the potential for
a positive rural transformation and an inclusive and sustainable
agriculture and agri-food sector in Africa.

RESEARCH AND INNOVATION: Three new contracts were signed to boost
research and innovation under the Development Smart Innovation through
Research in Agriculture [8] (DeSIRA) Initiative:

* _A support programme for the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture
Development Programme [9] (CAADP) ex-pillar IV African research
organisations (FARA, AFAAS, ASARECA, CCARDESA and CORAF), to be signed
with IFAD, aimed at transforming agriculture and food systems and
influencing policy-making (€30 MILLION EU CONTRIBUTION)._
* _Support for the Tropical Agriculture Platform [10] (TAP), to be
signed with the FAO, to implement the TAP Action Plan (€5 MILLION EU
CONTRIBUTION)._
* _The One Planet Summit Fellowship Programme [11], to be signed with
Agropolis Foundation (other partners: the Bill and Melinda Gates and BNP
Paribas foundations), for African and European scientists working on the
challenges of adapting African agriculture to climate change (€3 MILLION
EU CONTRIBUTION)._

RELATED:
The audio and video recordings of the panels related to agriculture,
environment, food security and food trade @the EDD 2019 are now
available and embedded in the PAEPARD blogpost.

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 2:04 PM François Stepman <fstepman@gmail.com>
wrote:

> AGRICULTURE @ European Development Days 2019 [2]
>
> 18-19 June 2019. The European Development Days (EDD) is Europe's leading forum on development and international cooperation.
>
> https://paepard.blogspot.com/2019/06/european-development-days-2019.html

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