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It's no secret that Microsoft's Marketplace is struggling in comparison to Apple's App Store or Google's Android Market. If you browse through these three online application stores, you'll see that Apple and Google have many more applications to offer compared to Microsoft. In fact, Apple has about 225,000 apps and Google has 65,000 in their respective app stores. To make matters worse for Microsoft, because the software giant is completely overhauling its mobile OS, programs developed for previous generations of the software won't work on Windows Phone 7. In other words, Microsoft is starting from scratch.
Microsoft is working hard on its upcoming mobile OS known as Windows Phone 7, and the company knows it needs to offer a respectable app store to go along with the highly touted OS. To achieve this, Microsoft is using a few different tactics to ensure its app store will be filled with apps that are enticing and appealing to users. To that end, Microsoft is reportedly offering free test hardware to certain developers to help them ensure their software will run on the new OS. In addition, Todd Brix, a senior director at Microsoft who works with app developers said the company is providing financial incentives ranging from free tools and test handsets to funds for software development and marketing. In some cases, Microsoft is even providing revenue guarantees and will make up the difference if apps don't meet their sales goals in the Marketplace.
"We are investing a lot to attract developers big and small to Windows Phone 7 to let them understand what the opportunity is and provide as many resources as we can to help them be successful on our platform," Brix said. "We're open for business and we want to work with them."
Really, there's nothing wrong with Microsoft using a number of tactics in an attempt to gain support for its ecosystem. Microsoft certainly has the money, and given the fact that the company desperately needs to catch up to its competition, it makes sense that Microsoft would want to use any and every avenue it can to ensure a successful launch.
lol... I didn't even know microsoft HAD an app store... that's pretty sad lol
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>> In some cases, Microsoft is even providing revenue guarantees and will make up the difference if apps don't meet their sales goals in the Marketplace.
Microsoft uses this strategy a lot: Take a product that isn't the best and doesn't have market dominance, then throw billions of dollars into advertising and partner deals until the competition goes bankrupt. It's quite harmful to us as consumers, when companies can't compete on the technical merits of their solutions.
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Ya... Microsoft had a app store? But hey free test hardware! It will be a fully operating one right? not just crap to test if it works...
All these incentives Microsoft is offering... Isn't this the same thing Intel got sued over?
acarzt: All these incentives Microsoft is offering... Isn't this the same thing Intel got sued over?
I don't think it's the same.
Intel was using their dominance in the chipset market to prevent competition in the CPU market (basically penalizing distributors that wanted to sell more that a token percentage of AMD chips). Microsoft's strategy doesn't directly harm vendors in that manner.
I don't think Microsoft's doing anything illegal, I just think that their strategy harms consumers in the long run. They invest a ton of money taking over a market that someone else created, then take over. Once they have dominance and the competition has asphyxiated, they quit investing money in development and that market stagnates. It would be so much better for the consumer if Microsoft would spend their resources improving the markets they already own.
When is the Zune going to be turned into a phone:P
I hope Microsoft makes Apple look like the Turtleneck putzes that they are:P
3vi1: Intel was using their dominance in the chipset market to prevent competition in the CPU market (basically penalizing distributors that wanted to sell more that a token percentage of AMD chips). Microsoft's strategy doesn't directly harm vendors in that manner.
Well that same situation can be worded 2 ways "If you sell AMD products, i'm going to charge you more per chip"
Or... "Hey, if you don't sell AMD products, i'll give you a discount ;-)"
Either way it's illegal to do such a thing. This practice was perfected by Rockefeller way back in the day... and made illegal because of the monopoly it created.
Microsoft isn't doing exactly the same thing, but it is potentially shady.
Also.. they've already tried and failed to take over other markets... The Zune... for example...
They already made their own phone tom lol It was called the Kin.. and no one wanted it... despite their vast efforts to promote the thing lol
And it's funny that they never put their name behind it... like they knew it was going to fail lol It's a hard to find fact that it was Microsofts little project lol
I think it was more of small scale experiment to see if they could actually enter the phone market with their own hardware lol Instead of going in full scale like they did with the Zune and risk damaging their brand image.
Really who pay sattention to the Kin:P
They should have just merged the Zune with a phone and called it the Z-Phone :)
lol... well they have Zune software on the Kin, it had the zune music store as well lol
But like I said... and you proved... no one cared or wanted it lol
Well.. they're rewarding developers for working on their platform (Nothing wrong with that), but they're not punishing them if they also develop for other platforms (which would be evil). So, I can't find them at fault, other than the long term effect of their billion-dollars monopoly leverage killing off viable/better alternatives and competition.
You make an excellent point about the Zune, and the same thing could be said of Bing: Markets where their OS lock-in doesn't give them an overwhelming advantage (i.e. markets where they have to compete on the merits of the product) have not been kind to Microsoft, even with their marketing muscle.
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I've played every one of the Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm (NSUNS) games and I love them! They are awesome! However, there are a few things i would like added to make the game perfect.
1. Jutsu Selection Characters in NSUNSG (Generations) and NSUNS2 have different forms such as Naruto Sage mode and Naruto Rasen Shurikan. Why can't they all be used on one character? Add a little customization with every characters skills. 2. Costume Selection This could make for a lot of extra work, but I liked playing Naruto against Pain in NSUNS2 in Sage Mode without the coat. It feels more natural and it was just a nice little touch that made me like the game that much more. 3. Mode Switching Instead of just the Awakening near death, I think characters should be able to unleash different modes in combat. Sage Naruto should not be character, but instead a new "mode" in battle. Maybe call it a "Release"? 4. Character Selection The character selection screened angered me in NSUNSG. Very confusing and hard to find the character i wanted among the clutter. This is another topic that costumes would fix. 1 Sprite or face for each character and a button to change the costume/jutsus/mode. I may be asking too much, but this game is one of my favorites and I would love to see it at it's full potential. ~Isaiah |
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Entertain your kids without a screenThese days, it can be hard to entertain your kids without a screen. Yvonne Chavez-Lombardi, director of education at Kidspace Children's Museum, joins Easy Does It Host Ereka Vetrini with fun activities you can do with items found around the house.
Related: Don't touch that dial: Tips for limiting screen time
Chavez-Lombardi notes that screen time often undermines children's play. "It really affects their healthy development. It makes it harder for children to build relationships with people, with nature. And it really affects them academically in the long run," she says.
Related: 10 ways to add exercise to your kids' routine
First, Chavez-Lombardi offers an activity that is fun and that uses items easily found in your bathroom and your kitchen.
Supplies: Shaving cream, food coloring, plastic knife, paper, foil tray.
Put food coloring into the foil tray. Then place a layer of shaving cream in the tray over the food coloring. Use the plastic knife to swirl the two together. Next, take a piece of paper and smash it into the foam. Scrape the foam residue from the paper and enjoy your new artwork.
Next is an activity making a pinecone bird feeder.
Supplies: Pinecone, peanut butter, birdseed, string.
String your pinecone by the top. Take some peanut butter and smear it on the ends of the pinecone and then sprinkle birdseed on top so that it will stick.
This activity is fun because you can discuss the birds that visit. Chavez-Lombardi adds, "One of the important things with this activity is that kids really start to develop a sense of a appreciation and a stewardship for nature."
A more challenging activity for older children is the "Toilet Paper Roll-ercoaster."
Supplies: Toilet paper rolls, tape, scissors, cars or marbles.
Cut the toilet paper rolls in half and tape them together to create a track. Roll marbles or cars down the track. "At different heights you're going to get different kinds of speed. It's what we call potential and kinetic energy," says Chavez-Lombardi. "It's fun and exciting, and it can change in every single experience that they have with it."
For more of Yvonne's ideas on how to get your kids offline, check out the Kidspace Museum at KidspaceMuseum.org.
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Where are they now? Harold Dow
The pearl-handled pistol was tucked in his boss' belt, just waiting there in case it was needed.
Harold Dow and the news director who hired him were targets, the objects of death threats that swamped the TV station's switchboard.
The people of Omaha, Neb., had never seen a black TV reporter on the air, not until that evening in 1968 when Dow stumbled through history on ABC affiliate KETV. No one seemed ready for him.
"They were calling me everything but a child of God," said Dow, then a 20-year-old student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
"They threatened my life, and they threatened [Lee Terry's] life for hiring me. When he got off the set, I came to him and said, 'Lee, I don't think I need all this attention.'
"And as he was tucking a white, pearl-handled pistol into his belt, he looked at me and said, 'If I'm willing to go through this, I see no reason why you shouldn't be.' I said, 'Are you going to give me a gun?' He said, 'Hell no.'Ÿ"
Welcome to TV, kid.
It was Dow's first day on the job and his first time in front of a camera. He was more than 1,200 miles from home. But the lessons he learned growing up in Hackensack — especially on the wrestling mat and the football field — got him through that day and the four decades he's since spent in TV news.
Dow, 62, is a correspondent on CBS' "48 Hours Mystery" and has been a staple on "48 Hours" since its inception in 1988. The five-time Emmy winner served as a contributor on the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather'' and was among the first journalists to report on the crack epidemic. The Upper Saddle River resident also obtained the first network interviews with Patty Hearst, and with O.J. Simpson after the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murders.
"I've traveled all over the world. I've seen things few people in life get a chance to see up front and personal," Dow said in his distinctive, deep voice. "I covered the tsunami in Sri Lanka. I was in South Africa when Nelson Mandela was freed. I traveled with him across the United States when he gave his tour. There's just moments, places I've been that I think truly changed my life."
It all began in Hackensack, where Dow was a district and County champion while wrestling at 130 pounds as a senior. He also played defensive end for notable Comets football coach Tom Della Torre.


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Israel is an island of stability and domestic cohesion at a moment of upheaval everywhere else, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said Tuesday night.
Kissinger, the keynote speaker at the opening of President Shimon Peres's fourth annual Facing Tomorrow conference, said that the essence of all revolutions, including those now taking place in the Arab world, is that they begin with resentment "and then have to find a positive direction in which to evolve."
Kissinger, who received Peres's Presidential Award of Distinction for his "exceptional contribution to the State of Israel and humanity as a whole," said that one of the peculiarities of the Arab-Israeli negotiations is that "one side [the Arabs] consider recognition of another state as sufficient for the formation of peace. But the recognition of the state is the beginning of peace, it is not the end of peace."
"Everyone knows the sacrifices Israel has made, and is prepared to make for peace, but the other side has to give some content to what a peace would look like," said Kissinger, who was instrumental in brokering disengagement agreements after the 1973 Yom Kippur War in which Israel battled Egypt and Syria.
Regarding the current negotiations with Iran, Kissinger noted that the UN Security Council has stated for a decade that a military nuclear program in Iran was unacceptable.
While now the world powers see a need for diplomacy, Kissinger said that "a point will be reached where they will have to define what they mean by unacceptable, and how that should be implemented."
This moment, Kissinger declared, is approaching in the months ahead, "and it is something we should all do together."
Kissinger, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, said that when one looks at history he realizes that in order to have peace there must be two elements: justice, meaning that the people concerned must feel they live in a world that meets their essential needs; and equilibrium, "so that the strong cannot dominate the weak."
"This is our challenge today, and it is at a strange moment, because we find that the nation-state on which the European and international polices have been based is in the process of disintegrating in many parts of the world," he continued.
Peres, in a warm speech bestowing his award on Kissinger, praised him for putting Israel on the track of peace with Egypt, ensuring a US airlift of arms to Israel during the Yom Kippur War and helping to open the door for the exodus of Soviet Jews.
Kissinger, who seemed moved by the honor, quipped that it was unusual for an 89-year-old man to say, "I wish my parents could be here."
"They would be moved more by this distinction than any of the other honors that have come my way," he explained.
Lost in the evening of praise for Kissinger were some recently uncovered harsh statements that he made about Jews while working in the Nixon White House, reputedly plagued by a garden-party style of anti-Semitism.
For instance, a 1973 recording from the White House released in 2010 had Kissinger – then president Richard Nixon's national security adviser – telling him that helping win the freedom of Soviet Jews was "not an objective of American foreign policy."
"And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern.
Maybe a humanitarian concern," said Kissinger, a Jew who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938.
Kissinger later clarified that the quotations needed to be "viewed in the context of the time." He said that Nixon pursued the issue of Soviet Jewish emigration as a humanitarian matter, separate from foreign policy issues, because normal diplomatic channels were closed, and to avoid questions of sovereignty.
In another instance, the State Department released documents in 2011 showing that the White House was flooded with appeals in 1972 from Jewish organizations and then-prime minister Golda Meir on behalf of Soviet Jewry.
Kissinger, at the time an assistant to national security adviser Alexander Haig, was asked by White House official Leonard Garment how to proceed on the matter.
According to transcripts released by the State Department, Kissinger said to Garment: "Is there a more self-serving group of people than the Jewish community?" Garment, also Jewish, replied, "None in the world."
Kissinger was then quoted as saying, "What the hell do they think they are accomplishing? You can't even tell the bastards anything in confidence because they'll leak it."
It has also been widely reported that for six crucial days during the 1973 war Kissinger delayed the badly-needed airlift of weapons to Israel. An unnamed source close to former US defense secretary James Schlesinger has widely been quoted as saying Kissinger's strategy was to "let Israel come out ahead, but bleed."


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Naphthalene is a white solid substance with a strong smell. Poisoning from naphthalene destroys or changes red blood cells so they cannot carry oxygen.
This is for information only and not for use in the treatment or management of an actual poison exposure. If you have an exposure, you should call your local emergency number (such as 911) or the National Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222.
Moth balls; Moth flakes; Camphor tar
Stomach problems may not occur until 2 days after coming in contact with the poison. They can include:
The patient may also have a fever. Over time, the following additional symptoms may occur:
NOTE: Persons with a condition called glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency are more vulnerable to the effects of napthalene.
Determine the following information:
If you suspect possible poisoning, seek emergency medical care immediately. Call your local emergency number (such as 911).
The National Poison Control Center (1-800-222-1222) can be called from anywhere in the United States. This national hotline number will let you talk to experts in poisoning. They will give you further instructions.
This is a free and confidential service. All local poison control centers in the United States use this national number. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does NOT need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Take the container with you to the hospital, if possible.
See: Poison control center - emergency number
The health care provider will measure and monitor the patient's vital signs, including temperature, pulse, breathing rate, and blood pressure. Symptoms will be treated as appropriate.
Blood and urine tests will be done.
Persons who have recently eaten many mothballs containing napthelene may be forced to vomit.
Other treatments may include:
It can take several weeks or longer to recover from some of the poisonous effects.
If the patient has convulsions and coma, the outlook is not good.
Ford MD, Delaney KA, Ling LJ, Erickson T, eds. Clinical Toxicology. 1st ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2001:chap XX.
Cantilena LR Jr. Clinical toxicology. In: Klaassen CD, ed. Casarett and Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons. 7th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2008:chap 32.
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Mash temperatures
In the mash, grain is heated to one of a series of temperatures in order to complete different chemical and enzymatic changes in the wort.
The chart below lists some of the common mash temperatures or rests used by homebrewers. For more information about a particular rest, see the links in the chart or the description of mashing at the Mashing page.
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Saccharification rest | The one rest necessary in every mash; at these temperatures, alpha-amylase, beta-amylase, and limit-dextrinase, among other enzymes, break down the large starches into sugars, including fermentable sugars. The specific temperatures at which these enzyme
Note that the most common mash temperatures, between 153 and 155 degrees F, are actually above the temperature where beta amylase is denatured. However, as it denatures, it does still operate in the wort, allowing a single-step infusion rest. Because these enzymes operate at different temperatures, by adjusting the temperature to favor one enzyme over another the brewer can adjust the fermentability of the sugars in the wort. | ||||||||||||||||||
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"Dr. Schwartz's research will provide autism researchers from around the world with much-needed access to tissue from autism patients by using a technology that is benign to the patient, but potentially extremely valuable to researchers in the field." - Brent Dethlefs, Director, CHOC Children's Research Institute In 2006, excitement rippled throughout the scientific community when a Japanese researcher reprogrammed rodent skin cells into induced pluripotent stem (iPSCs) cells that could mature into any cell type of the body including brain cells. At CHOC Children's Research Institute, stem-cell researcher Philip Schwartz, Ph.D., patiently waited for two things: one, for the study to be successfully repeated; and secondly, for the technique to be replicated in humans. He didn't have to wait long. In 2008, three research teams independently presented the results of successful human studies. Dr. Schwartz immediately applied for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant to use the same technique to reprogram skin cells biopsied from autistic boys into iPSCs. His goal: to differentiate these cells into neural stem cells and then into neurons in order to identify possible biomarkers or genetic testing for autism and — ultimately — effective treatment. In August 2009, the NIH awarded Dr. Schwartz a $3 million grant to hunt for autism's genetic fingerprint. His long-time collaborators at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute are providing skin biopsies from 100 carefully screened autistic boys in order to establish a cell bank at CHOC. Dr. Schwartz and his team will be growing and banking skin cells and iPSCs, and the resulting cell lines will be available to other researchers. "By comparing and contrasting autistic brain cells with normal brain cells, we hope to identify either targets for therapy or targets for diagnosis," Dr. Schwartz said. "If we could come up with a biochemical or genetic test, it would shorten the time for diagnosis and make the diagnostic process available to everyone. If we could come up with a therapy as well, then we really will have done something very important." For more information, contact Dr. Schwartz at 714-516-4341.


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Ruth Ann Loden Morelan, 60, of Crossville, passed away May 23, 2010. Funeral services were held May 26 from the chapel of Hood Funeral Home. Bro. Cecil Bristow officiated and burial was in Mt. Zion Cemetery.
She was born July 8, 1949 in Cumberland County, the daughter of David Elmer and Mollie Evans Loden. She was currently employed as a sales associate at Walmart in Crossville, but had previously worked at Keiser-Roth in Rockwood and MasterBrand in Crossville. She enjoyed traveling and working in her flower gardens. Spending time with her grandchildren was her most precious pastime of all.
She is survived by her son, Keith Morelan and wife, Crissie, of Knoxville; grandchildren, McKenzie, Matthew and Christopher Morelan; sister, Violet Loden of Crossville; sister-in-law, Nancy Loden of Oakdale, PA; nephews, Jeff Loden of Oakdale, PA, and David Loden of Sherman Oaks, CA.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Avery Wallace Loden.
Pallbearers were Greg Adkins, Scott Elmore, Butch Burgess, Charles Ladd, Anthony Ladd and Doyle Houston.
Hood Funeral Home and Crematory, LLC (www.hoodfuneralhome.com) was in charge of the arrangements.
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Thank you for a lovely stay in your fabulous hotel. The breakfast hot chocolate was the perfect start to each day. The staff could not have been more helpful and polite. I would recommend this hotel to all who want to enjoy a relaxing and perfectly positioned hotel.
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I stayed with you dec 2006 and enjoyed your hotel very much.Luba
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Quaturo Ltd has been announced this week as a new content marketing agency in London.
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'American Idol' Finale: Phillip and Jessica After The Results!
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It's official: Phillip Phillips is your next American Idol. Here's what he, runner-up Jessica Sanchez, and music producer Jimmy Iovine had to say after the results were announced...
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Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament - Advancing African Agriculture - Proposal for continental and regional level cooperation on agricultural development in Africa
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Advancing African Agriculture Proposal for continental and regional level cooperation on agricultural development in Africa
Advancing African Agriculture Proposal for continental and regional level cooperation on agricultural development in Africa
This paper proposes principles and key areas for EU-AU cooperation on agricultural development in Africa, focusing on regional and continental levels. Cooperation at these levels will complement and stimulate agricultural development at the national level, which is where the most intense cooperation will continue to take place. It will build on the policy orientations set out in the 'European Consensus'[1] and the EU Strategy for Africa[2]. Both documents reiterate that agriculture and rural development are crucial in terms of reducing poverty and stimulating growth. To contribute to growth, the Community has indicated it will focus on the sustainable intensification of production, competitiveness on regional and international markets and risk management. This should be facilitated in Africa by making use of technological development, supported by agricultural research and extension.
Cooperation will be closely aligned with Africa's agricultural agenda and aims to stimulate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Broad-based agricultural growth has direct significance in attaining the first MDG (eradicating extreme poverty and hunger) and will be a strong factor in progress towards the seventh MDG (ensuring environmental sustainability).
Agriculture[3] remains the economic base for the majority of the poor in Africa and accounts for about a third of Africa's GDP and for the bulk of employment. Most agricultural production comes from small-scale farmers, with women playing an extremely important role[4]. Agricultural production, distribution and sales directly affect food security and the nutritional status of household members. Moreover, there is a high multiplier effect for agricultural growth. Higher incomes from agriculture also make the provision and use of social services in rural areas sustainable and affordable. Furthermore, the use made of natural resources by farmers is crucial in terms of the sustainability of ecosystems and of biodiversity.
Agriculture is predominantly a private-sector activity, but will require significant public-sector involvement. First, market failures have been prevalent and have negatively affected socially and geographically marginal groups. Second, environmental externalities exist, which require public regulation and intervention to maintain sustainability. Third, agriculture works much better when public-domain functions are more effective.
The cooperation areas listed in this paper provide a long-term framework for assistance. In a geographical sense, there is a focus on Sub-Sahara Africa, where the agricultural problems are most pressing. Nevertheless a continental scope is relevant in view of the alignment with AU initiatives and as several cooperation areas[5] will have an Africa-wide dimension.
Current Challenges
Agriculture in Africa is regaining economic prominence, with a marked increase in agricultural sector growth: 2.7% in 2002, 3.0% in 2003 and 5.3% in 2004. Favourable price movements for a number of products have contributed to this trend, while improved production conditions[6] have been another factor for growth. However, for sustained poverty reduction, agricultural growth will need to speed up further, particularly in low-income rural societies, where agriculture is likely to remain the main driver for economic growth and employment creation.
The current challenges facing agricultural production and growth in Africa are multiple and inter-related. In disentangling these aspects, six areas have been identified to help prioritise areas of cooperation[7]:
(i) developing an integrated and broadly shared vision on agricultural development and its place in sustainable economic growth and poverty alleviation, and translating this vision into coherent development policies, strategies and budgets;
(ii) strengthening agricultural sector governance, by re-defining the roles and interactions of the state, private sector and civil society, and by improving the capacity of the various organisations to participate in policy formulation and implementation;
(iii) improving sustainable rural productivity and enhancing the nutritional value of agricultural produce, by scaling up a range of known technological and managerial innovations, by expanding research and making it more effective for agricultural users;
(iv) accessing remunerative markets, by enhancing physical accessibility and making use of (niche) market opportunities[8], products and structures leading to higher producer prices, and through trade facilitation, including through improved SPS;
(v) establishing more effective natural resources management regimes and ensuring positive economic returns for sustainable use; and
(vi) reducing risks and vulnerabilities, with respect to pests, diseases, price fluctuations, market insecurity, climate change and adverse weather events.
Africa's Agricultural Agenda
To foster agricultural development, the AU and NEPAD have launched the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), while Heads of State agreed to significantly increase the share of national budgets for agriculture and rural development[9]. Moreover, an overall AU vision on agriculture has emerged on what should be achieved by 2015.
The CAADP initiative takes a continent-wide view, but builds on national and regional plans for the development of agriculture. It contains a set of key principles and targets, in order to (i) guide country strategies and investment programmes, (ii) enable regional peer learning and review; and (iii) facilitate greater alignment and harmonisation of development efforts. For development partners, CAADP offers important opportunities for progress on the Paris Declaration.
CAADP is developing four thematic 'pillars' that serve as policy frameworks for national and regional programmes. CAADP programmes at the national and regional levels will follow a specific process in a 'round table' format that will result in country and regional 'CAADP Compacts', covering policy reforms and guiding public and private investments and interventions.
The December 2006 AU Summit[10] called for some selectivity in pursuing the CAADP commitments, based on a recognition that limited resources and institutional capacities require priorities that will lead to quick but sustainable gains in terms of achieving food and nutrition security.
Objectives and Principles
The following proposals for EU-AU cooperation concentrate on continental and regional levels and set out to create an improved enabling environment for agricultural development on the continent. Cooperation will be based on the following principles
- Commitment to the Millennium Development Goals , with specific reference to the 1st and the 7th MDG.
- Alignment with African priorities, based on the CAADP processes, principles and targets.
- Donor harmonisation and alignment, following the principles of the Paris Declaration.
- Building on other AU-EU Partnerships and Facilities, complementing EU initiatives which directly or indirectly support rural development in Africa and using existing Africa-Europe partnerships.
- Drawing lessons from relevant EU experiences and good practice, building on nearly 50 years of agricultural policy experience in the EU.
- Application of subsidiarity, supporting only those regional and continental functions that add value to national level interventions.
- Policy Coherence , between EU development policies and agricultural, fisheries, trade, consumer and energy policies.
In line with CAADP demands, cooperation will focus on capacity building and institutional strengthening of regional and continental organisations.
Cooperation will foster a more strategic and effective role for the State in agriculture, based on the view that the State will primarily: provide an effective policy and regulatory framework, create an enabling environment; intervene in situations of market failure; provide services with a public goods character; create safety nets; and be restrictive in its use of subsidies.
Priority Areas for Cooperation
EU-Africa cooperation on agricultural development will focus on seven areas, based on the main challenges to agriculture in Africa and on African priorities, as reflected in the CAADP.
Agriculture in Development Strategies
This area will address the need for agricultural development to be an integral and strategic part of the development agenda at national, regional and continental levels, recognising agriculture as a key sector for economic growth and poverty reduction.
Cooperation at regional and continental levels will focus on:
- Analysis and capacity building on the inter-relationship between agricultural performance and macro-economic policies, external shocks, climate change, desertification, and biodiversity;
- Drawing lessons from national policy development experiences and their impact on agriculture and the rural economy;
- capacity building and institutional strengthening in fostering evidence and outcome-based policy design, policy coherence and advocacy;
- coordination and cooperation across sectors;
- supporting the establishment of a continental farmers forum, linking national and regional farming organisations, and strengthening their roles in CAADP processes;
- strengthening the analytical and monitoring functions in comparing and contrasting agricultural development paths of individual countries in economic, social and environmental terms.
AUC, NEPAD and RECs will be the main partners, and cooperation will be in support of their functions of policy analysis, monitoring, peer review and advocacy, as well as their capacity building roles for national-level organisations. Regional Farming Organisations will form another group of partners. Involvement of international organisations in implementation is envisaged, while cooperation with the AUC may involve a twinning arrangement with the EC, involving relevant DGs (such as AGRI, FISH, SANCO, TRADE, ENV, RTD, JRC and REGIO). CTA[11] will be involved in advocacy, will facilitate exchanges of lessons learned and will assist in strengthening farmers' organisations and their linkages with CAADP.
Sector Governance
This cooperation area will assist in capacity building at regional and continental levels, with a view to improving governance in the agricultural sector at national levels. Improved governance is expected to contribute to a smoother transition of smallholder farming towards commercially viable and sustainable family-based agriculture.
Cooperation on sector governance will include:
- regional and continental policy harmonisation, and facilitating coherence between regional and national agricultural policies;
- monitoring policy undertakings and conducting peer reviews;
- formulating regional and continental guidelines on key governance aspects, including on land and land use policy and on sustainable agriculture;
- capacity building and empowerment for participation in sector governance;
- promoting public-private partnerships and business-to-business alliances;
- strengthening regional and continental-level representations of producer and professional organisations, with effective advocacy and lobbying capacity, and
- comparative analysis and lesson-learning from liberalisation and privatisation processes in agriculture, public-private relations and government performance.
Cooperation is envisaged with AUC in strengthening its political and facilitative role in policy development, coordination and harmonisation; with NEPAD and RECs in capacity building, monitoring, policy analysis and peer review; and with private regional and continental organisations, representing producers and professional organisations, in capacity building, advocacy, negotiation and service provision. CTA will be involved in the latter aspects, as well as in raising awareness on the basis of lessons learned. Learning lessons from EU experiences, involving exchanges with the EC, Member States and private sector organisations in the EU, may also be used as a form of capacity building on governance[12].
Research, Knowledge Systems and Dissemination
The aim of this cooperation area is to increase the impact of agricultural research and knowledge systems on rural productivity, poverty reduction, food security and sustainable management of natural resources, taking into account challenges posed by climate change. There will be an emphasis on multidimensional research approaches, on sustainable agricultural production systems and on research with positive impacts on the rural poor.
Regional and continental level cooperation areas include:
- strengthening collaboration between countries in research to reduce fragmentation and create synergies;
- formulating continental and regional research strategies;
- co-financing priority research with supra-national implications;
- capacity building for new forms and channels of extension, training and education and strengthening of linkages between research systems, extension services and farmers;
- creating and or/strengthening networking platforms for information, knowledge access and exchange[13]; and
- enhancing coordination between national agricultural research systems (NARS) and regional and international research programmes.
Cooperation in this area will take into account the lessons from long-standing research cooperation between the EU and Africa[14], and guidelines to foster cooperation among European partners[15]. It will be inspired by CAADP pillar 4 and will be aligned with the FAAP principles. The main partners will be FARA and the related Sub-Regional Research Organisations (SROs), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (GFAR) as well as the European Forum (EFARD) with its operational networks[16], the CGIAR system, other international organisations and research partnerships, including the JRC. CTA will help to strengthen the networking platforms.
Trade Facilitation, emphasising Quality Assurance and Improvement
The aim of this cooperation area will be to strengthen Africa's ability to make markets work for poverty reduction, focusing on regional markets for agricultural produce. Current trade negotiations (EPAs, DDA) are meant to lead to enhanced agricultural trade opportunities for African countries requiring an appropriate supply response. Proposed cooperation includes strengthening the ability to influence, set and adhere to meaningful production and trade standards in order to (continue to) access remunerative markets for agricultural produce and to guarantee product safety for consumers.
Support will specifically build on the opportunities offered by EPAs and will cover:
- regional strategies and capacity building to address structural weaknesses in agricultural input and output markets;
- capacity building for trade policy surveillance, including monitoring of implementation, reporting and enforcement of trade facilitation policies;
- building regional markets and enhancing intra-regional trade, particularly on food commodities;
- establishing legal and regulatory frameworks for harmonisation, standardisation and control; adopting common regional classification systems and standards, and aligning with international ones;
- strengthening reference laboratories, networking with national centres and capacity building for other facilities and institutions involved in testing and compliance;
- enhancing regional capacities to improve understanding and compliance with standards, including on safe residue levels;
- promoting certification schemes for sustainable and socially acceptable production; and
- capacity building for active involvement in regional and international discussions and negotiations on (food safety, agricultural trade) standards and other forms of trade facilitation.
Main partners will be the AUC specialised agencies (notably IBAR and IAPSC), international normative institutions, certification organisations, research centres, RECs, regional farming and exporters' organisations, reference laboratories and relevant UN agencies. CTA will be involved in improving understanding of SPS issues.
Natural Resource Management: Land, Fisheries, Forestry
This cooperation area will back improvements in governance and management regimes for land, fish and forest resources that aim to combine environmental sustainability and biodiversity with profitable utilisation and poverty reduction.
Regional and continental aspects involved in this cooperation area are:
- policy coordination and harmonisation, particularly on cross-border resources;
- establishing and strengthening coordination and cooperation mechanisms on cross-border resources, within existing regional frameworks;
- formulating regional and continental guidelines on land policy and on sustainable resource use, combining economic, legal, social and environmental dimensions;
- promoting a policy environment that makes it easier to allocate responsibility and accountability in terms of natural resource use;
- exchanging lessons and supporting peer review on the effectiveness of management regimes;
- monitoring and surveillance of the state of (and pressure on) natural resources and of the effects of climate change on agriculture and natural resources; and
- fostering cooperation in combating illegal resource use (including fishing and forestry) and trade in illegal products[17].
Under this area, there will be a focus on policy and governance, and on management and institutional arrangements for sustainable natural resource use. In terms of land policy and soil & water management, support will be aligned with CAADP pillar 1 and related international initiatives[18]. Fisheries Partnership Agreements will form the framework to improve the control, monitoring and surveillance of fish resources. Main partners will be AUC, NEPAD, RECs, specialised NGOs, and (sub-)regional land & water management, fisheries and forestry organisations, as well as European and international institutions, networks and platforms specialised in these sectors[19]. CTA will facilitate exchanges of lessons learned.
Livestock Development and Disease Control
This cooperation area will enhance the sustainability of the livestock sector and its contribution to poverty alleviation and growth, with an emphasis on strengthening animal disease control knowledge and systems. Cooperation will aim to reduce animal mortality, lower livestock production risk and improve public health prevention, as well as to improve access to regional and international markets, facilitate rational land use and reduce livestock-related environmental problems. It involves:
- cross-border cooperation on pastoralism, rangeland management, sustainable livestock production systems and livestock trade;
- analysis on the interrelationship between livestock development in Africa and climate change;
- strengthening coordinated networks of veterinary services and disease control systems, applying international standards,
- strengthening the pan-African system for coordinating regional and national health systems to tackle animal diseases; and
- research, trials and knowledge dissemination on disease prevention methods, including vaccine development.
Main partners envisaged are the specialised livestock agencies of the AUC (IBAR, PANVAC and PATTEC), ILRI and livestock agencies at (sub-)regional levels, FAO, OIE, and regional and international livestock and pastoralism organisations. Use will be made of the African Livestock (Alive) Partnership, in which the main stakeholders are involved.
Risk Management
This area of cooperation will address capacities for reducing risks related to climate change, natural disasters and price shocks, with a focus on organisational questions and financial instruments.
Cooperation at regional and continental levels will include:
- institutional and technical capacity building in disaster preparedness, prevention and responsiveness, including to short-term food shortages;
- research, dissemination of information and capacity building on reduced-risk farming methods and coping strategies;
- innovative systems for reducing the risk of crop and livestock losses due to pests and diseases;
- exchanging information on lessons learned, and capacity building in using market-based price risk management instruments, smoothing schemes and insurance mechanisms; and
- developing and applying regional and continental early warning systems and linking them to national ones.
Cooperation will include building up the capacity of key public and private organisations and improving access for African countries to international financial and insurance markets. Main partners will be AUC, RECs, and international organisations. CTA will be involved in information exchange on reduced-risk farming methods and market-based price risk management systems.
Coordination on EU-Africa agricultural development cooperation will have three interlinked dimensions: (i) with African institutions; (ii) with other donor coordination and (iii) intra-EU.
Coordination with African institutions will use the CAADP framework and will be under the leadership of continental and regional organisations, with a central role for AUC/NEPAD. The CAADP Partnership Platform is the core mechanism for coordinating involvement of all development partners at the continental level. Similar platforms are being set-up at regional levels. At national level, the CAADP Country Round Table process provides a comparative platform. In thematic terms, coordination will increasingly be arranged around the CAADP 'pillars'.
Donor coordination and harmonisation and alignment around CAADP will be enhanced by the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD), of which the EC and various Member States are members. The GDPRD will act as donor focal point on CAADP, and will assist in organising the CAADP Partnership Platform meetings.
Coordination within the EU will be reinforced through a proposed EU working group[20] on African agriculture, technically supported by CTA. The working group will strengthen synergies in and improve the quality and visibility of EU financing for African agricultural development[21].
Monitoring and review
Progress in implementing CAADP and in cooperation on agricultural development will be monitored predominantly at the CAADP Partnership Platform and the Africa Partnership Forum (APF). Both will use a similar set of indicators that are being reported upon by AUC and NEPAD. In addition, mechanisms are being developed for more detailed progress monitoring within the CAADP pillars.
The GDPRD will assist in the monitoring process, with specific reference to donor funded projects and programmes, to harmonisation and alignment, and to consistency within the CAADP programme.
The relevance of the policy orientations and strategic directions of EU-Africa cooperation in agricultural development will be subject to the same review process as the overall EU-AU cooperation agenda, as currently covered by the EU Strategy for Africa.
Broad-based agricultural growth in Africa is key in progressing towards the MDGs and in ensuring the affordability of social services in rural areas. Recognising this, seven core areas for AU-EU cooperation on agricultural development at regional and continental levels have been set out, based on Africa's agricultural agenda and primarily working through African organisations. They focus on capacity building and institutional strengthening of regional and continental organisations in order to foster improvements in agricultural policies and governance.
Cooperation will combine a competitiveness orientation, focused on productivity and growth, with broad-based development, focusing on poverty alleviation and social cohesion. For both aspects, regional markets for agricultural products will need development, underlining the importance of regional integration and trade facilitation. Moreover, sustainable production systems will be promoted, recognising the need to adapt to external challenges like climate change.
Cooperation will be in line with the Paris Declaration, by providing support for an African agenda and by using harmonised mechanisms for dialogue and review.
Annex 1 - Acronyms
ACP : Africa, Caribbean, Pacific
AGRI : Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development (EC)
APF : Africa Partnership Forum
ARD : Agricultural Research for Development
AU : African Union
AUC : African Union Commission
ASARECA : Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa
CAADP : Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme
CGIAR : Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
CILSS : Comité Permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel
COMESA : Common Market for East and Southern Africa
CORAF/WECARD : Conseil ouest et centre africain pour la Recherche et le développement Agricole/West and central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development
CTA : Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et Rural/Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation
DG : Directorate-General
DRC : Democratic Republic Congo
EC : European Commission
ECART : European Consortium for Agricultural Research for the Tropics
ECCAS : Economic Community of Central African States
ECOWAS : Economic Community of West-African States
EDF : European Development Fund
EIARD : European Initiative for Agricultural Research for Development
ENPI : European Neighbourhood Policy Instrument
ENV : Directorate-General Environment (EC)
EU : European Union
FAAP : Framework for African Agricultural Productivity
FAO : Food and Agriculture Organisation
FARA : Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
FISH : Directorate General Fisheries and Maritime Affairs (EC)
FLEGT : Forestry Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade
FP : Framework Programme (Research)
FSTP : Food Security Thematic Programme
GDP : Gross Domestic Product
GDPRD : Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
GFAR : Global Forum on Agricultural Research
IAPSC : Inter-African Phytosanitary Council
IBAR : Inter-Africa Bureau for Animal Resources
IFAD : International Fund for Agricultural Development
IFAP : International Federation of Agricultural Producers
IFPRI : International Food Policy Research Institute
IGAD : Inter-Governmental Agency for Development (Horn of Africa)
ILRI : International Livestock Research Institute
JRC : Joint Research Centre (EU)
MDG : Millennium Development Goal
NARS : National Agricultural Research Systems
NATURA : Network of European Agricultural (tropically and sub-tropically oriented) Universities Related with Agricultural Development
NEPAD : New Partnership for Africa's Development
NGO : Non-Governmental Organisation
OIE : Organisation Internationale de la Santé Animale/World Organisation for Animal Health
PAEPARD : Pan-African-European Partnership on Agricultural Research for Development
PANVAC : Pan-African Veterinary Vaccine Centre
PATTEC : Pan-African Tsetse and Tryponosomiasis Eradication Campaign
REC : Regional Economic Community
REGIO : Directorate General Regional Policy (EC)
RFO : Regional Farming Organisations
RIP : Regional Indicative Programme
RTA : Regional Trade Agreement
RTD : Directorate General Research (EC)
SADC : Southern African Development Community
SADC-FANR : SADC's Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Directorate
SANCO : Directorate General Health and Consumer Protection (EC)
SPS : Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary measures
SRO : Sub-regional Research Organisation
SSA : Sub-Sahara Africa
SWP : Staff Working Paper
TP : Thematic Programme
UN : United Nations
WFP : World Food Programme
WTO : World Trade Organisation
[3] Covering crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry.
[4] Women produce about 80% of all food in Africa.
[5] Like livestock disease control, research and SPS
[6] Including the advent of peace in some countries.
[7] See the accompanying Staff Working Paper for an elaborate presentation of the six areas.
[8] Markets for biofuels, but also for fair-trade and organic products, are expanding.
[9] In the 'Maputo Declaration' of July 2003, which committed countries to allocate at least 10% of national budgets to agriculture and rural development by 2008/09.
[10] Summit on Food Security in Africa, Abuja, Dec. 2006. At the summit a number of strategic commodities were identified for which intra-African trade and marketing would be enhanced.
[11] The Centre for the Development of Agriculture, a joint EU-ACP centre set up under the Cotonou Agreement.
[12] DG AGRI may assist in exchange of best practice, provide links with farming organisations and information about standards and research.
[13] Including farmer-to-farmer exchanges.
[14] Through both scientific (e.g. INCO, RFP) and development policy instruments.
[15] Developed by EIARD.
[16] ECART-EEIG and NATURA
[17] Building on the FLEGT initiative for forestry resources.
[18] e.g. TerrAfrica
[19] Including the JRC ACP Observatory for Sustainable Development.
[20] The working group is proposed to report to CODEV
[21] No new financing facility is envisaged.
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