Translation of "Association canadienne des conseillers agricoles " (French → English) :

We'll start with Mr. Culbert, for 10 minutes or less, please. Mr. Chair, members of the subcommittee, on behalf of Bioniche Life Sciences, I want to thank you for the opportunity to speak to you about food safety in Canada.

The Commission Communication and Council Conclusions for a Food Security Policy framework highlight the need to involve key stakeholder groups, such as community development groups, farmer organisations and women's associations, in policy making on rural and agricultural development.

(2g) Council Regulation (EC) No 1722/1999 of 29 July 1999 on the import of bran, sharps and other residues of the sifting, milling or other working of certain cereals originating in Algeria, Morocco and Egypt and the import of durum wheat originating in Morocco has exhausted its effects since it was meant as an interim instrument for the period prior to the entry into force of Association Agreements signed with Algeria on 22 April 2002 which entered into force on 1 September 2005, the Association Agreement signed with Morocco on 26 February 1996 which entered into force on 1 March 2000 and whose agricultural ...[+++] annexes were modified by agreements which entered into force in 2003 and 2005, and the Association Agreement signed with Egypt on 28 October 2009 which entered into force on 1 June 2010.

This funding mainly comprises support for programmes of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), which are implemented by the CGIAR's 15 centres and their implementing partners, and support to regional networks such as the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern, Southern and Central Africa (ASARECA) and the Conseil Ouest et Centre Africain pour la recherche et la Développement Agricole ...[+++] (CORAF).

The first priority axis continues to include the measure “Setting up of young farmers” within the subgroup of measures aimed at improving the human potential (together with the measures: vocational training and information actions for persons engaged in the agricultural and forestry sectors, early retirement of farmers and farm workers, use by farmers and forest holders of advisory services and setting up of farm management, farm relief and farm advisory services, as well ...[+++]as of forestry advisory services).

Given the existing national and international opposition against the construction of the Chad-Cameroon Oil and pipeline project because of a lack of proper compliance with World Bank environmental, social and indigenous peoples policies and recent reports that open debates between the local stakeholders, the companies and the authorities are becoming increasingly complicated, because of the atmosphere of intimidation and repression, particularly in southern Chad, is the Council aware that the local farmers' organisation EPOZOP has been ordered by the government to end its activities and suspend its meetings and that environmental impact ...[+++]assessments indicate that the project could be detrimental to the environment?