18th October, 2010 - Grenada

CTA REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BRIEFING

Guy STINGLHAMBER Valérie de OliveiraPIP Director Info-Communication

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Key challenges for SME’s?

Instruments to support SME’s?

Repositioning through Innovation?

In today’s Briefing, 3 main issues:

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In the ACP horticultural sector:

“Key challenges” are creating needs for “technical & financial instruments”

in order to “increase competitiveness, through

management improvement, innovation and repositioning”

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Through an integrated approach, Coleacp-PIP is :

Identifying ChallengesCreating tools to address these challenges

Supporting stakeholders to overcome them

Food safety Environmental issuesSocial issuesNext?

Horticultural private sector: new challenges to access export markets

Due diligence & certifications

Pesticides residuesHygieneTraceability …

Food safety

IPM/ICM (pesticides management) Carbon foot print Water use Land use Waste management …

Toward a Sustainable Agriculture!

Environmental issues

Reduce carbon footprint Smallholders (labour intensive) against tractors? Seafreight against airfreight?Green energy against fossil energy?

Best use of Water resources in some case need new (re) localization

Sénégal : Niayes to Lac de GersKenya : Lac Navasha to Rwanda ?

Environmental issues

ETHICAL trade certifications

• Respect of local regulations• ID Cards, • Children Labour• etc.

Implications on ACP countries

Technical challenges create financial constraints!

Costs of compliance have to be absorbed by the business

chain!

ANTICIPATION ? Solutions?

Turning challenges into opportunities?

More added value? Greater integration of the

value chain in the Caribbean countries

Ex: Fresh vegetables ready to cook – sliced, mixed and packed

Turning challenges into opportunities?

Moving to niche or specific markets where comparative advantages are

clear:

Labour intensive? Ethnic market? Organic products? Fair trade? Local/neighbour market? …

Turning challenges into opportunities?

GLOBALIZATION?GLOCALIZATION?

Turning challenges into opportunities?