Announcement ‘Financing agriculture´: 20th Brussels Development Briefing

The 20th Brussels Development Briefing will be on ‘Financing agriculture´ and will take place on the 15th of September 2010. As an input to the UN Summit on MDGs to be held in New York on 22-26 September 2010, CTA will discuss issues related to financing development in the context of agriculture and rural development. This will include issue such as:

1. Aid and ODA, taxation (Domestic tax revenues),
2. private investment (new donors),
3. revenue generation.

Speakers will include: Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College in London, the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa in the US, CONCORD, OECD, African Development Bank, Caribbean Development Bank, YARA, African regional framers organizations.

Related: 13/09/2010 Information Day and Brokerage Event on Call FP7-KBBE-5-2011