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This Executive Brief presents the 2012-13 state of play of the CAP reform, focusing mainly on the implications for developing countries and, in particular, ACP countries. Besides examining the main production and trade effects of the CAP implementation, the Brief presents some features of the EU’...

In the 2012-2013 season, high and volatile cereal prices remained a major concern for ACP governments, affecting both access to basic staples and the competitiveness of commercial livestock (largely poultry) production. Although a number of measures to enhance national food production are being t...

ACP countries are world leaders in cocoa production, which is mainly concentrated in West and Central Africa. Increased price volatility, coupled with changing patterns in global demand and supply concerns, as well as the emergence of new non-ACP suppliers, constitute some of the main challenges ...

At the global level the cotton market is dominated by the USA (the world’s biggest exporter) and China (63% of world’s stocks), while ACP countries account for just 5% of global production. However, cotton remains of considerable social and economic importance in the main ACP cotton producing cou...

WTO rules applying to international fish trade and treaties, as well as conventions governing fisheries management and conservation, are of considerable importance for ACP fish-producing countries. This Executive Brief presents the main international developments in the fisheries sector in 2012-1...

In the face of rising food prices, preference erosion and stricter standards in export markets, Caribbean governments have been seeking to promote local food production for domestic and regional markets. Those efforts have been oriented not only to an import substitution strategy (as it is the ca...

In the majority of ACP countries, local production of dairy products falls short of the growing domestic demand. As a way to cope with this situation, expanding local production is just one policy option, the alternative being the use of imported milk and milk powder for the development of local ...

Despite the existence of two major regional integration processes in Central Africa (CEMAC and ECCAS), intra-regional trade of food products is poorly developed, with the major trade flows being with the EU, the US and increasingly with emerging economies such as China. Central African countries ...

Finalized in mid-2013, the new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) will cover, through the financing of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), expenditures related to the EU’s external fisheries policy, including: financial contributions to Fisheries Partnership Agreements (FPAs); participati...

Given that around 37 ACP countries are involved in exporting fruits and vegetables to the EU, accounting for some 13% of EU imports, the development of fruit and vegetable policy in the EU has important implications for ACP countries. This Executive Brief presents the main trends of the EU fruit ...