Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA)

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) was established in 1983 under the Lomé Convention between the ACP countries and EU member states. Since 2000 CTA has operated within the framework of the ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement with a mission to “strengthen policy and institutional capacity development and information and communication management capacities of ACP agricultural and rural development organisations. It assists such organisations in formulating and implementing  policies and programmes to reduce poverty, promote sustainable food security, preserve the natural resource base and thus contribute to building self-reliance in ACP rural and agricultural development.”[1]

CTA work focuses on three key areas[2]:

Contents

CTA Products, Projects and Services

CTA regularly issues a range of online services and print publications, including:

Countries

The Centre, which is based in Wageningen, the Netherlands, is active in seventy nine ACP countries. CTA has an office in Brussels.

Funding

CTA’s resources are derived mainly from the European Development Fund, but also from other European programmes or countries that may assign it appropriations or offer co-funding for operations.

References

  1. ^ Cotonou Agreement
  2. ^ CTA Strategic Plan 2007-2010

External links

See also