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		<title>Long term investments in agriculture essential to grasp and sustain opportunities</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/24/long-term-investments-in-agriculture-essential-to-grasp-and-sustain-opportunities/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/24/long-term-investments-in-agriculture-essential-to-grasp-and-sustain-opportunities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brussels, 16 October 2008: After a welcome by Dr Hansjörg Neun, Director of CTA, Lluis Riera Figueras from European Commission DG Development and Sir John Kaputin, Secretary General of the ACP Secretariat appreciated the good timing of this 7th Brussels Development Briefing. FAO Director General Jacques Diouf addressed the audience by video from Rome.
Lluis Riera Figueras opened arguing that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The food crisis: What needs to be done</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/22/food-crisisconclusions/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/22/food-crisisconclusions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his concluding remarks to the 7th Brussels Development Briefing on food prices, Professor Eric Tollens from the Catholic University of Leuven underlined that this crisis is an urgent wake-up call. Agricultural supply has been proven to have a low price elasticity; in other words the huge price increases only led to a low increase [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">an opportunity for change?’</media:title>
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		<title>Rising food prices: An opportunity for change? - Audience reactions</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/21/rising-food-prices-an-opportunity-for-change-audience-reactions/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/21/rising-food-prices-an-opportunity-for-change-audience-reactions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What did participants at the October Briefing think of the discussions? We asked for some reactions:
Pierre Berthelot, Director of the Coordination Unit for the All ACP Agricultural Commodities Programme, underlined three main points. First, even if it&#8217;s clear that we are seeing an increase in food prices, agricultural prices are actually declining over the long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regional cooperation: A solution to Africa&#8217;s food crisis?</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/17/regional-cooperation/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/17/regional-cooperation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brussels, 16 October 2008: In the 7th Brussels Development Briefing on rising food prices, Cris Muyunda presented how COMESA aims to improve food security in Eastern and Southern Africa.
He argued that the current high food prices pose a heavy burden on COMESA Member States. Studies show that a 10% increase in food prices lead to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology the solution to the food crisis?</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/17/technology-solutions/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/17/technology-solutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brussels, 16 October 2008: In the 7th Brussels Development Briefing on rising food prices, Dr Mike Bushell from Syngenta provided a private sector perspective on how to feed the world.  He argued that good technologies to increase yields already exist, but we have to deploy this technology safely in local sustainable agricultural systems.
In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The EC response to the food prices crisis</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/16/mikos-the-ec-response-to-the-food-prices-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/16/mikos-the-ec-response-to-the-food-prices-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brussels, 16 October 2008: Speaking to participants at the 7th Brussels Briefing on rising food prices, Philip Mikos, Head of the Environment, Food Security, and Rural Development Unit of the European Commission&#8217;s DG Development set out the main ways that the Commission is responding to the food price crisis.
He referred participants to two recent EC communications:

Tackling the [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">an opportunity for change?’</media:title>
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		<title>Food prices: More than food production</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/16/food-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/16/food-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brussels, 16 October 2008: In the 7th Brussels Development Briefing on rising food prices, Stineke Oenema representing the CONCORD European Food Security Working Group called for sufficient policy space of developing countries to make independent decisions on protecting their markets. 
While there seems to be a general consensus that smallholder agriculture needs a boost to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmers essential to address the food crisis</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/16/farmers-essential/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/16/farmers-essential/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brussels, 16 October 2008: In the 7th Brussels Development Briefing on rising food prices, Renwick Rose from WINFA, the Caribbean, passionately underlined the need of a frank and serious dialogue with the farmers on the ground.
He highlighted that there have been very many food initiatives in the last decades, but why did they all fail? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video material from the seventh briefing</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/16/video-material-from-the-seventh-briefing/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/16/video-material-from-the-seventh-briefing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The presentations and discussions in the 7th Brussels Briefing  Briefing on 16 October 2008 were recorded and edited by Glasshouse. The following sequences are available:
Introductory remarks
Isolina Boto, CTA
Welcome remarks by organizers
Dr. Hansjörg Neun, CTA
Lluis Riera Figueras, EC - DG Development
Sir John Kaputin, ACP Secretariat
Jacques Diouf, Director-General, FAO (videomessage from Rome at the occasion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Food system needs loosening&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/16/wiggins-food-system-needs-loosening/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/10/16/wiggins-food-system-needs-loosening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brussels, 16 October 2008: In the 7th Brussels Briefing on rising food prices, ODI&#8217;s Steve Wiggins gave a brief historical analysis of the food system, the production and market trends.
Observing the global cereal production, the world food system has functioned very well. Until the 1980s, cereal production yearly increased 2,8 %, which surpasses the rate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>16 October 2008 - Rising food prices: an opportunity for change?</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/09/22/16-october-2006-rising-food-prices-an-opportunity-for-change/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/09/22/16-october-2006-rising-food-prices-an-opportunity-for-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the context of the World Food Day, CTA in partnership with the European Commission-DG Development and EuropeAid, the EU Presidency, the ACP Secretariat, Euforic and Concord (European platform of development NGOs) organized the 7th Brussels Development Briefing on 16th October 2008.
The briefing discussed the issue of &#8220;Rising food prices: an opportunity for change?&#8221;. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New drivers, new players in ACP rural development - Audience reactions</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/22/new-drivers-new-players-in-acp-rural-development-audience-reactions/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/22/new-drivers-new-players-in-acp-rural-development-audience-reactions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What did participants at the July Briefing think of the discussions? We asked a few for their reactions.
Ambassador Brave Ndisale of Malawi chaired the second Panel of the briefing. She found the briefing very useful to provide clarity on policies and practices of new actors in development, especially China. She also underlined that Africa has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a green revolution in Africa possible?</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/12/is-a-green-revolution-in-africa-possible/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/12/is-a-green-revolution-in-africa-possible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a green revolution was possible in Asia then why not in Africa? With these words Akin Adesina (AGRA) took the floor and challenged participants during the first panel of the Brussels briefing on “New drivers, new players in ACP rural development”.
Mr. Adesina noted that conditions in Africa differ from Asia: crop variation is greater; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questioning the current development model</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/11/questioning-the-current-development-model/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/11/questioning-the-current-development-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ndiougou Fall, President of ROPPA (Network of Farmers’ and Agricultural Producers’ Organizations of West Africa), offered the audience at the July 2008 Brussels Briefing a farmer&#8217;s organization perspective on the issue of &#8216;new actors, new players&#8221;.

As recognised by Mr. Riera, the &#8220;enormous difficulties&#8221; that developing countries are facing leave lots of rooms for new actors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding China&#8217;s multiple roles in Africa</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/11/understanding-chinas-multiple-roles-in-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/11/understanding-chinas-multiple-roles-in-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jian-Ye Wang, of the African Department of the IMF, focused his intervention in the 6th Brussels Development Briefing  on changing Africa-China economic relations and African development.
Pointing out that China-Africa cooperation is not new and already goes back 30 years, Mr. Wang noted that the label &#8220;new&#8221; donor is misleading as China is not primarily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The role of philanthropic foundations in supporting ACP agriculture</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/09/the-role-of-philantropic-foundations-in-supporting-acp-agriculture/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/09/the-role-of-philantropic-foundations-in-supporting-acp-agriculture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first panel of the briefing on &#8220;New drivers, new players in ACP rural development&#8221; Olga Sulla from the World Bank argued that, backed by considerable financial capacity, philanthropic foundations are playing an increasingly significant role in development assistance and have the potential to do much more.
The vast majority of philanthropic foundations are US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TICAD: Development cooperation between Asia and Africa</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/08/ticad-development-cooperation-between-asia-and-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/08/ticad-development-cooperation-between-asia-and-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking in the third panel of the Brussels briefing on “New drivers, new players in ACP rural development”, Ambassador Keiji Yamamoto and Motofumi Kohara, JICA Director General for Rural Development, explained how Japan fosters South-South cooperation
Ambassador Keiji Yamamoto opened his intervention with an overview of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). Japan hosted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tri-lateral EU-Africa-China cooperation for the development of the continent</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/08/tri-lateral-eu-africa-china-cooperation-for-the-development-of-the-continent/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/08/tri-lateral-eu-africa-china-cooperation-for-the-development-of-the-continent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking the floor in the second panel of the Brussels briefing on “New drivers, new players in ACP rural development”, Mr. Uwe Wissenbach, Coordinator for Africa-China relations at the EU Commission, presented the EU approach to the emergence of China in Africa.
In line with the presentations of his two fellow panelists (Mr. Wang and Ms. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donors can improve rural development aid delivery</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/07/donors-can-improve-aid-delivery/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/07/donors-can-improve-aid-delivery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking in the third panel of the Brussels briefing on “New drivers, new players in ACP rural development&#8220;, Christoph Langenkamp presented the experience of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development and how it fosters the aid effectiveness agenda.
The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development was created in 2004 when international attention to agriculture was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEPAD&#8217;s role in improving the quality and effectiveness of aid</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/06/nepads-role-in-improving-quality-and-effectiveness-of-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/06/nepads-role-in-improving-quality-and-effectiveness-of-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The third panel of the Brussels briefing on “New drivers, new players in ACP rural development&#8221; looked at trends in aid effectiveness, alignment and harmonisations among donors. Together with the experiences of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development and the Japan International Cooperation Agency, Amadou Diallo presented the the role of NEPAd in aid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How China delivers rural development assistance to Africa</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/05/how-china-delivers-rural-development-assistance-to-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/05/how-china-delivers-rural-development-assistance-to-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second panel of the Brussels briefing on “New drivers, new players in ACP rural development” focussed on China&#8217;s role in rural development cooperation with Africa, Africa-China economic relations and the EU&#8217;s approach to this changing architecture. Ms. Hannah Edinger of the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University gave an overview of ways that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promoting dialogue and coordination among &#8216;new&#8217; and &#8216;old&#8217; players</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/05/promoting-dialogue-and-coordination-amongst-new-and-old-players/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/05/promoting-dialogue-and-coordination-amongst-new-and-old-players/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Together with Lluis Riera of the European Commission, Dr. Hansjörg Neun, Director of CTA, welcomed participants to the 6th Brussels Development Briefing. His introductory remarks set the scene for the discussions.
Recalling the importance of the Brussels Briefings in fostering cross-sectoral dialogue and debate on agriculture and rural development in ACP countries, Dr. Neun presented the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new aid architecture: what implications for civil society?</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/04/the-new-aid-architecture-what-implications-for-civil-society/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/04/the-new-aid-architecture-what-implications-for-civil-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Rudolf Buntzel, from the Church Development Service and representing Concord during the 6th Brussels Development Briefing, explained that new actors bring new international funds - each with different procedures. NGOs are challenged to search for additional sources of funding, and rely less on their governments. 
Dependence on public funding can drive NGOs away from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video material from the sixth briefing</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/03/video-material-from-the-sixth-briefing/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/03/video-material-from-the-sixth-briefing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The presentations and discussions in the sixth Brussels Development Briefing on 2 July 2008 were recorded by the European Commission and edited and made available to view on the Internet.
Please note that for the time being the audio tracks are only available in the original language.
The following sequences are available:
Opening remarks
Hansjörg Neun, CTA
Lluis Riera Figueras, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 July: New Drivers, New Players in ACP rural development</title>
		<link>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/03/2-july-2008-new-players-new-drivers-in-development/</link>
		<comments>http://brusselsbriefings.net/2008/07/03/2-july-2008-new-players-new-drivers-in-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 2 July 2008, CTA, in partnership with the European Commission - DG Development and EuropeAid - the EU Presidency, the ACP Secretariat, Euforic, Concord and IPS Europe, organised the sixth ‘Brussels Development Briefing’ - part of a series of discussion meetings on key issues and challenges for rural development in the context of EU/ACP [...]]]></description>
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