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Here is Traidcraft's map with updates about how Europe is negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with 76 countries across Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific. The map below shows which countries are involved in EPAs and how negotiations are progressing. Click on the circles on the map to see more detail.

EPAs

Plan África

El Plan África y las relaciones comerciales y de inversión entre España y el África Subsahariana en el contexto de los EPA. (Ainhoa Marín Egoscozábal (dir.); Carmen Lafuente Ibáñez, Patricia Garrido Llamas). Madrid, Fundación Alternativas. 2009.

Interview with Dot Keet

Mrs Dot Keet, Research Associate of the Alternative Information and Development Center (AIDC), based in South Africa, attended the Stati Generali, meeting held in Rome in October 2008, to give the representatives of the civil society and the Government the opportunity to discuss international cooperation and its new challenges and frontiers.

She talked about Africa and the financial crisis, about the unfairness of the Economic Partnership Agreements and the mechanisms hidden behind them, about investments and capital outflows.

Partnership for Change uploaded this interview on Arcoiris, a free Italian on-line television.

Food crisis

Hidden Threats: An Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights in EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: Unveiling the Hidden Threats to Securing Food Supplies and Conserving Agricultural Biodiversity UK Food Group, 2009
Briefing paper which argues that new international rules on intellectual property rights (IPRs) which the EU is proposing to include in EPAs will be beyond countries’ obligations under the WTO’s TRIPs agreement and threatens food security in ACP countries.

MDGs

Whose Freedom? Millenium Development Goals as if people matter!

Critique of MDGs by Actionaid International, 2005

Tools of the trade

Epa Update - December 2008_IT

A ppt update about the EPAs (Economic Partnership Agreements) at december 2008 by
Professor Chris Garforth, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development
http://www.reading.ac.uk/apd