Traduction de «industrial forum for west africa » (Anglais → Français) :

9. Welcomes all multi-stakeholder initiatives involving governments, industry, producers and civil society that aim at eradicating child labour, improving the lives of children and adults on cocoa farms and ensuring that cocoa is grown responsibly, such as the recent regional initiative by the OECD, the Secretariat of the Sahel and West Africa Club and the International Cocoa Initiative to promote best practice in combating the worst forms ...[+++] of child labour on West African cocoa farms; points out that these initiatives require appropriate follow-up in order to ensure genuine progress; encourages governments to increase their support to fair-trade networks in the cocoa sector and to rural cooperatives, and to enable them to send their product directly to the national and international markets, thus avoiding middlemen and obtaining fair prices; calls on the Commission to support such measures;

9. Welcomes all multi-stakeholder initiatives involving governments, industry, producers and civil society that aim at eradicating child labour, improving the lives of children and adults on cocoa farms and ensuring that cocoa is grown responsibly, such as the recent regional initiative by the OECD, the Secretariat of the Sahel and West Africa Club and the International Cocoa Initiative to promote best practice in combating the worst forms ...[+++] of child labour on West African cocoa farms; points out that these initiatives require appropriate follow-up in order to ensure genuine progress;

At the moment there is no European fleet competing with the non-industrial fleets of these countries in West Africa, although the same cannot be said of other foreign industrial fleets.

16. Stresses the high level of dependence of countries in West Africa on fisheries as a source of employment, food security, proteins, government revenues and foreign exchange, as illustrated by a current case study published by the International Organization for Migration suggesting that one of the most important causes of migration from Senegal is the decline of local fisheries ...[+++]industries;

Reflecting the particular importance of cotton production in Mali and other parts of West Africa, Commissioner Mandelson will visit a cotton factory and meet with representatives from the West African cotton industry.

Last week, I had the honour of representing the Senate of Canada at a forum in Mauritania, West Africa.