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Representing the Plant Science Industry

CropLife Africa Middle East

Newsletter

Number 32

July, 2008

East & Southern Africa Hub Workshop

Dr. Emily Mogajane in her Opening Address at the Workshop

The East & Southern Africa Hub

Meeting took place in Johannesburg

on 24 and 25 June.

The theme of the workshop was

“Alleviating Counterfeiting of Crop

Protection Products”.

The Opening Address was given by

Dr Emily Mogajane, Acting Director

General of Agriculture, who focused

her talk on the current food crises

and the role that industry can play in

helping to address this. In her talk

she praised industry on the

operation of the “obstocks and

c o n t a i n e r m a n a g e m e n t ”

programmes. With the workshop

f ocus ing o n th e i s sue o f

“counterfeiting”, the opportunity was

taken to launch the “IPR Toolkit” for

Africa and developing countries. The

development of the Toolkit was in

conjunction with the CLI team in

Washington and local consultants,

Spoor & Fisher in South Africa. The

launch of the Toolkit together with a

presentation on counterfeiting was

handled by the consultants. This was

followed by a presentation given by

Gerwin Bouillon of the CLI team,

labelled, “CropLife Leadership in

Global Anti-Counterfeiting Actions”.

Lastly, a presentation was given on

the realities of counterfeiting in

Tanzania.

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Other topical issues covered at the workshop were:

♦ An update on the ASP

♦ Container Management

♦ Poison Information Centres

♦ Building Strategic Alliances –

Building Sustainability

♦ Implementing the Interna-

tional CoC through Public –

Private Cooperation

♦ Communications

♦ An update on the SEARCH

Harmonization Initiative

♦ Safe Use Training – A New

Concept

♦ (Copies of all the above presenta-

tions are available on request)

Group photo of the participants at the Workshop

Dr Rudolf Guyer, Dr Emily Mogajane, Dr Björn

Neumann


General Assembly Meeting

CropL i fe Afr ica Middle East Newsletter Number 32 Ju ly, 2008

At the June General Assembly meeting of CropLife

Africa Middle East held in Johannesburg, South Africa,

a number of issues were discussed and various

decisions taken. With 14 of the 15 members present the

following decisions were reached:

♦ Approval of the annual activity report of the

organization for the year 2007.

♦ Approval of the financial report for 2007.

♦ Approval of the 2008 expense budget as requested

by the Executive Committee.

♦ The Executive Committee elected in 2007 com-

pleted their term of service and were all eligible for

re-election.

Members elected to serve until June 2010 are:

Pierre Flye President

Antonie Delport Vice-President & Hubchair E&SA

Michel Chartouni Vice-President & Hubchair NA-ME

Wolfgang Roesch Treasurer

Daniel Kagwe Director

Sarwat Sakr Director

Rudolf Guyer Executive President

The vote for Rudolf Guyer as Executive Director of

CropLife AME from 1st July 2008 was unanimous. The

Executive Committee paid tribute to members who have

stepped down. These were Björn Neumann, Peter van

den Hoek and Gitau Macharia. Their valued

contributions to CropLife AME activities over the years

were recognised and appreciated by the committee.

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NEW EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTED

Antonie Delport, newly appointed Vice

Chairman of CropLife Africa Middle East

and Hub Chairman for East & Southern

Africa together with Daniel Kagwe,

newly appointed ExCo Member

Pierre Flye, newly appointed President of

CropLife Africa Middle East

NEWS ROUNDUP



A training workshop was organized between 30th June

and 1st July by the Sweden Trading Co. in cooperation

with the municipality of Al-Ain Emirate and Akar Co. It was held at the Alain Municipality Conference Hall. This two-day workshop was an inter-regional partner-ship between the public and the private sector. The workshop was led by Dr. Said Abdella, training spe-cialist for CropLife Egypt. The training workshop dealt with the principles of integrated pest management and safe use of pesticides. The workshop was aimed at building capacity in support of the IPM project on the control of Red Palm Weevil in the UAE. Seventy one participants attended and a great deal of the workshop focused on basic IPM principles, pesticide classifica-tion, labels, transport and storage together with safety measures in relation to human health and the environ-ment. It was clear that the success of this training activity is attributed to the proactive initiative by Sweden Trading Co. to build training capacity on pest control within the framework of IPM, and represents a sound model for private and public partnerships.

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Dr. Said Abdella leading IPM/safe use workshop in Al-Ain, UAE

IPM and Safe Use Training takes place in the

UAE

The GA meeting approved the an-

nual activity and financial reports

and elected new directors to

ExCo.

Additional points that were

covered at the meeting were:

♦ The prioritization of activities

and the ranking of the na-

tional associations.

♦ The review of the IPR bro-

chure as some inconsisten-

cies were found in the draft

copy.

♦ The training update including

the “special ToT training” to

create capacity in the region.

♦ The feedback on the Global

IPM Pilot Course and the roll-

out action plan discussed.

♦ The progress that has been

made with the website and

newsletter.

♦ An update on Biotechnology

in the region.

♦ Container Management with a

call for national associations

to ensure that the end recy-

cled product complies with the

CLI guidelines.

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More news from the

General Assembly

Meeting held in

South Africa



West & Central Africa Report

CropLife Côte d’Ivoire has been granted $40 000 for

the development of professional training by the

French company, Fonds pour le Développement de

la Formation Professionnelle, FDFP.

Training is crucial to achieve the aims and goals of

CropLife Côte d’Ivoire. The training will be provided

and supervised by consultancy group, Hygena Con-

sultants. CropLife will arrange and organise the train-

ing sessions and provide trainers from their own pool.

The signing of the protocol will take place in August

when CropLife Côte d’Ivoire will give a presentation

of the detailed training plan.

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FUNDS GRANTED TO

DEVELOP TRAINING IN

CÔTE D’IVOIRE

Tshepo Shabangu of Spoor & Fisher

delivering her presentation at the

Hub meeting recently held in South

Africa

Bama Octave Yao, Area Coordinator

for West & Central Africa ensures

that positive progress is made in

Cote de Ivoire with regard to the

Plant Science Industry.

The new CropLife committee has been hard at work

to ensure progress in Côte d’Ivoire that will benefit

CropLife policies in the country. A meeting was held

with the new committee of CropLife Côte d’Ivoire

where various key activities of CropLife Africa Middle

East/International were agreed to. This led to the

arrangement of 8 projects teams who will focus on:

♦ IPR/Anti-Counterfeiting

♦ Regulations

♦ Stewardship

♦ Economic & Customs Affairs

♦ Ethics, Environment & Biotechnology

♦ Container Management & Obsolete Stocks

♦ Medical Affairs

♦ Communication & Partnership Building.

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EIGHT PROJECT TEAMS

SELECTED THAT BENEFIT

CROPLIFE IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE

PHOTO GALLERY— PEOPLE & RECENT EVENTS

Les Hillowitz makes a toast at the Hub Meeting

dinner



SNIPPETS

Contributors:

Ali Mohamed Ali (North Africa Middle East)

[email protected]

Bama Octave Yao (West-Central Africa)

[email protected]

Les Hillowitz (East-Southern Africa)

[email protected]

The recognition of those National Associations whose special achievements over the year has become a regu-

lar feature at the annual Hub Meeting. This year awards were granted to:

CropLife Madagascar for “EXCELLENCE in All-round Performance”

CropLife Namibia for “EXCELLENCE in “Container Management”

Above: Björn Neumann presenting a trophy to Rivo Andriamanalina,

President of CropLife Madagascar

Above: Björn Neumann presenting a trophy to Herman Louw,

President of CropLife Namibia

Farewell of Björn Neumann, Hub Chairman, E & SA

Björn’s role within his organization recently changed

and in his new position he will unfortunately no

longer be involved in Africa. As a result he has had

to relinquish his role of heading up the Hub. He used

the timing of the workshop to bid farewell to the

many friends and colleagues he has made over his

five year term. He will be sorely missed.

The President of CropLife Africa Middle East, Dr Rudolf Guyer paying

tribute to Björn Neumann

PERFORMANCE AWARDS

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