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| Group pic after the opening ceremony |
Mr. Vincent Fautrel, Senior Programme Coordinator Agricultural Trade and Value Chain Development Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (ACP-EU) says the African region has a great potential of origin linked quality products: Coffee from Guinea, Atieke from Côte d’Ivoire, and Pineapple from Benin, just to mention a few.
CTA: “our
interest in Origin Linked Quality Products (OLQP) and Geographical Identifications (GIs)
started in the mid 2000 in the context of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
discussions but also in the framework of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
negotiations. We commissioned a few papers to highlight the key issues for the
ACP countries and organized in 2008 the first ACP-EU technical workshop in
Montpellier France together with CIRAD, INRA and AFD."
Mr. Fautrel was speaking at the official opening
ceremony of a training
workshop on Identification and Inventory of Origin Linked Quality Products
Capacity strengthening programme for Central and West African countries in
Akossombo, Ghana, scheduled to take place from 12th -16th May 2014.
The training was the third in a
series, as the first two trainings were organised for the French-speaking
countries in 2013 in Benin and Burkina Faso.
