On 21 June 2019 Agricultural Ministers from the African Union and the European Union will meet in Rome to discuss how best to support an inclusive and sustainable agri-food sector in Africa. This is a major opportunity for the Ministers to publicly embrace diversified, ecologically and socially sustainable food systems and pledge political and financial support for existing African initiatives in this field. It could also be the right moment to establish the long-awaited mechanism for improving Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) by identifying and blocking potential negative impacts of EU trade, investment and agriculture policies on small-scale producers in Africa.
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