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Hearings - EU Agriculture policy and developing countries - 28 February - 27-02-2018 - Committee on Development - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development 13-03-2018 12:12 PM CET On Tuesday afternoon, 27 February, the Committee on Development and the Agriculture Committee held a meeting to discuss the impacts of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on developing countries, and their food and agriculture systems in particular. Among the speakers were renowned experts, such as Olivier De Schutter, an African milk farmer as well as the EU Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan. DEVE members analysed how to improve Policy Coherence for Development when reforming the CAP. Location : JAN 4Q2 Further information Video recording Programme Policy Department study Presentations      Adama Diallo, Chair of UMPL-B (National Union of mini-dairies and producers of local milk from Burkina Faso)      Alan Matthews, Professor of European Agricultural Policy, Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland)      Olivier De Schutter, Co-Chair of IPES-Food (International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems), Brussels (Belgium)      Maria Blanco, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Technical University of Madrid (Spain)      Harald von Witzke, agricultural economist and former Chair for International Agricultural Trade and Development, Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany) Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP Latest news - Next AGRI meetings - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development 13-03-2018 10:20 AM CET 19 March 2018, 15.00-18.30 (Brussels) - cancelled - 20 March 2018, 09.00-12.30 and 14.30-18.30 (Brussels) Meeting room József Antall (JAN) 6Q2, European Parliament, Brussels (BE) Our meetings (except 'in camera') are webstreamed on the EPTV. Further information Link to Committee calendars 2018 Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP QUESTIONS? STAY CONNECTED  Contact Us | This email was sent on behalf of the European Parliament · Bât. Altiero Spinelli · 60 rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60 · B-1047 - Bruxelles/Brussels  · Belgium · Phone: +32(0)2 28 42111