1 / 14

18th October, 2010 - Grenada

CTA REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BRIEFING. Guy STINGLHAMBER Valérie de Oliveira PIP Director Info-Communication. 18th October, 2010 - Grenada. In today’s Briefing, 3 main issues:. Key challenges for SME’s?

robert-page
Download Presentation

18th October, 2010 - Grenada

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. CTA REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BRIEFING Guy STINGLHAMBERValérie de Oliveira PIP Director Info-Communication 18th October, 2010 - Grenada

  2. In today’s Briefing, 3 main issues: • Key challenges for SME’s? • Instruments to support SME’s? • Repositioning through Innovation? 2

  3. 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” 3

  4. Through an integrated approach, Coleacp-PIP is : • Identifying Challenges • Creating tools to address these challenges • Supporting stakeholders to overcome them 4

  5. Horticultural private sector: new challenges to access export markets • Food safety • Environmental issues • Social issues • Next?

  6. Food safety • Due diligence & certifications • Pesticides residues • Hygiene • Traceability • …

  7. Environmentalissues • IPM/ICM (pesticides management) • Carbon foot print • Water use • Land use • Waste management • … Toward a Sustainable Agriculture!

  8. 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 Gers • Kenya : Lac Navasha to Rwanda ?

  9. ETHICAL trade certifications • Respect of local regulations • ID Cards, • Children Labour • etc.

  10. Implications on ACP countries Technical challenges create financial constraints! Costs of compliance have to be absorbed by the business chain!

  11. Turning challenges into opportunities? ANTICIPATION ? Solutions?

  12. 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

  13. 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? • …

  14. Turning challenges into opportunities? GLOBALIZATION? GLOCALIZATION?

More Related