Comments for Brussels Development Briefings

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Comment on Press coverage by Kanyingi

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Comment on Translating the Aid for Trade agenda into effective assistance by Lambe

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Comment on Speakers at the EDD parallel event by Hulse

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Comment on SMEs by Bafotigui SAKO

Bafotigui SAKO — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:19:45 +0000

I have nether found such an instructive and comprehensive website discussing developing countries current development issues such as : the SME as the drivers of growth in DC, the cluster and value chain development, the impact of the current financial crisis on trade in ACP countries. Any issues that are of policy implications for the ACP countries. As a devlopment agent working in UNIDO I found all topics of great interest for my daily future work.

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Comment on About the Briefings by David O. Ojo

David O. Ojo — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:23:47 +0000

Quite a good advances in ACP agricultural development. Would like to contribute more on this topics, because it is the most tallented, hardworking and best of ACP’s youth are migrated away from developing agriculture in ACP. Looking forward towards your debates.

Comment on Long-term migration and remittances are not likely to fall significantly due to the financial crisis by Carlos Macias

Carlos Macias — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:05:12 +0000

In a recent article posted at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas website we found a not-so-positive trend with remittances sent to Mexico and other Latin American countries. Tougher enforcement and huge job losses may trigger a reverse migration phenomenon that will hurt countries that depend on those remittances to survive. Here is the link to the article: http://carlosmacias.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/recession-strikes-immigrant-jobs-remittances-ascoa-online-121208/

Comment on Technology the solution to the food crisis? by Michael

Michael — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:34:49 +0000

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Comment on Aid for trade by Sinead Diederich

Sinead Diederich — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:23:25 +0000

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Comment on Aid for trade by koung bellet

koung bellet — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:40:09 +0000

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Comment on Climate change by LYDIA MUEIRWE

LYDIA MUEIRWE — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:53:36 +0000

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Comment on Past Briefings by Roosevelt O King

Roosevelt O King — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:03:37 +0000

The availability of video footage and audio of the briefings on the internet is an excellent use of the technology to get the discussions to the people. The issues discussed are very relevant and the fact that those who did not attend have a greater opportunity to witness the the actual proceedings is exciting and speaks well of the future of people’s involvement. This is truly a great initiative.
ROK

Comment on The Three Rs – rural, resilience, reliability by Timothy Kopial

Timothy Kopial — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:22:36 +0000

During the Brussels Briefing on Rural Development, I was very interested by the presentation from the Director for Asia and Pacific Division at IFAD, who talked about the enormous potential for biofuel development in the Pacific due to its close proximity to the equator and the fact that Papua New Guinea having the largest land area within the region is likely to be the key player in joint implementation of biofuel initiatives of the EU in the region.

Something to follow-up!

Timothy KOPIAL
Biofuel Development Coordinator
PNG Sustainable Energy Ltd
Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea

Comment on Rural development by K.T.K.F. Kong Win Chang

K.T.K.F. Kong Win Chang — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:55:40 +0000

It is imperative that support to rural development in ACP countries reach the poor. In developing the strategies to help ACP countries, the interests of the farmers of Africa should be taken in consideration as they have the experience of the way agriculture should be done in Africa. It is not proper to make policies in offices in Europe without involving the small farmers in Africa as they have the tradition and culture appropriate for their countries.

For aid to be effective there should be harmonization and alignment amongst donors. Currently, each donor has its own directives and this put on the receiving countries undue responsibilities for preparing project differently for different donors and there are then numerous costly missions to the developing countries. The donors should try to harmonize their needs for performance assessment and evaluation report when there are a number of donors, they must choose amongst themselves a leader who will take care of the project thus eliminating the needs for numerous evaluation missions and reports. The appointed leader should be the one that has been most successful in similar projects that they have done before.

Policies should be such that food security is possible and that there can be poverty alleviation. The non regulated international market will not ensure food security. There should be national, regional and global strategy to ensure food security. The right to food should become a human right.

Lesson learnt

It will be arduous to have a single coherent policy in eastern and southern Africa because of the high variability of space, low productivity and fragile resource base. A common regional market will have to be created as this represents around 400 million people. Intra regional trade should not be hampered. Example of policy changes include seed companies producing and selling in different countries, regional training curricula, pilot countries for developing quality standards and policy guidelines for products produced in African biosafety regulation in the region.

Comments and observation

Mauritius, particularly the Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute can take the lead in producing cane varieties suitable to the African region. It can also be involved in optimizing energy production and usage in the African region. It can provide advice for cane cultivation.

Comment on Diversification: Change the uses, not the crop! by Isolina Boto

Isolina Boto — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:10:22 +0000

In link with Mr Al Binger presentation, you can view presentations of an interesting Conference on Biofuels organised by the EC (DG External relations) on 5 and 6th July.
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/energy/biofuels/speeches.htm.

Comment on The Three Rs – rural, resilience, reliability by Atul Raturi

Atul Raturi — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:08:20 +0000

In the Pacific Islands, coconut tree plays a major role in day to day lives of the Islanders- its called the Tree of life.In the past few years copra production has nosedived mainly due to the poor returns. There are a number of untended plantaions full of senile and unproductive trees. The remoteness of smaller islands makes the transport of copra to oil mills and markets a very expensive exercise.

But there is a new hope for the tree of life -coconut oil is being tried as a diesel substitute and the results are encouraging. It is possible that one day there will be small power stations on all the islands running on locally grown and processed coconut oil ( staright or converted into biodiesel) and most of the transport in the cities will also use this fuel.

This could be another example of Diversification as mentioned by Al Binger and could revive the declining coconut industry.
For more on coconut fuel system , please follow the link below

Status of CNO in power generation and industrial use: http://www.sopac.org/tiki/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=979