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| Authors: Kerstin Bertow and Antje
Schultheis
October 2007 64 p. >> Complete
study [PDF, 570 KB]
Abstract IMF and World Bank liberalisation
policies have had an uncertain impact on African economies and their agricultural
sector. Despite some improved macro-economic data these liberalisation
measures had a negative impact on smallholder farmers and their right to
food. The shift in the EU-ACP partnership during the 1990s away from preferential
treatment of the ACP states to reciprocal free trade areas follows the
international liberalisation paradigm. This study seeks to examine the
potential impact of the EU’s policy, especially the effects of the forthcoming
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), on smallholder farmers and their
food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. The examples of Uganda, Zambia and
Ghana contribute to substantiate the analysis and allow some considerations
on particularly affected products.
Slide presentation with explanatory text
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