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Europe's trade policy has sold the Caribbean banana industry down the river, exacerbating drug trafficking and poverty
by Aurely Walker, Trade Policy Advisor Fairtrade Foundation, published in the Guardian Online 18 May 2010.
On 18 May, EU leaders and their counterparts from Colombia and Peru striked lucrative trade agreements spanning financial services, industry and agriculture – the first between the EU and any Latin American nation since 2003. The EU's attention will then focus on securing similar deals with the mighty Latin American Mercosur bloc that includes Brazil and Argentina.
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The current term of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will end in 2013. The new farm policy 2014 to 2020 of the European Union (EU) is therefore under discussion. In this respect, the European Commission (EC) has launched a consultation process to encourage input from a wide range of stakeholders. This consultation will input into a Communication by the EC by the end of 2010, which will layout the future thinking of the EU on CAP.
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Small producers have been placed at the core of future food security policies of the European Union (EU). On Monday 10 May 2010, EU development ministers met to discuss the position to be taken at the high-level review of the United Nations's (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in New York in September. The Ministers approved the European Commission’s (EC) proposals1 for an EU policy framework which tackles food security in developing countries by focusing on small-scale food production.
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