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M. Modeste Shabani bin Sweni est le responsable de la radio Santi ya Mkaaji. D apr s lui, les m dias ont un r le important dans le d veloppement de l agriculture, raison pour laquelle il faudrait appuyer les m dias communautaires et associatifs qui se trouvent au sein des r alit s villageoises. Il critique le fait que les m dias implant s dans les villes sont les premiers b n ficier du support ext rieur, m me s ils ne se tournent pas vers les probl mes des populations rurales. Face aux divers probl mes d infrastructure (transport, transformation etc.) le processus de d veloppement de l agriculture devient difficile. L aide pour renforcer les capacit s locales de gestion et aider les m dias communautaires et associatifs jouer leur r le de catalyseur dans le d veloppement des populations rurales s impose.

On November 18, 2009, a delegate assembly of United Teachers Of Richmond UTR-CTA was held in San Pablo . It took place after a rigged vote by the UTR president who manipulated the election results in favor of a concession contract. UTR members and activists spoke about the contract, the drive for charter privatization by the UTR-CTA and state CTA leadership and the illegal manipulation of the contract vote with the calling of the police by the President Pixie Hayward Schiclele to arrest union members who were at the union hall to protect the ballots. Produced by The Labor Video Project P.O. Box 720027San Francisco, CA 94172 laborvideo.blip.tv www.laborvideo.org

Wageningen, 2 November 2009. During the CTA ICT Observatory 2009 Dorothy Okello presented the work of WOUGNET in Uganda. Her organisation has been using mobile services to enhance the outreach of ICTs, to reach also rural and remote areas. However, there are also some challenges: the costs are still high; access to power and energy is an issue, and innovation in this field is very much needed; there's also a lack of skills in using these technologies; lastly, the policy environment needs to support the development of these services She concludes with some reflections on the day discussions. See more at http://observatory2009.cta.int/ [video by Pier Andrea Pirani - Euforic]

Brussels, 5 December 2007. Providing food for thought for the third session of the Brussels Development Briefings, Glenys Kinnock 'injects a note of realism' in the debate on aid for trade. In particular, Mrs Kinnock calls for EU member states and other G8 countries to provide additional fundings to offer proper aid for trade support and to address the potential negative effects of EPAs. See more: www.brusselsbriefings.net

Brussels, 5 December 2007. Speaking in the first panel in the Brussels Development Briefing on Aid for Trade, Karin Ulmer for CONCORD indicates the key lessons that have to be learned to addressing the matter. In particular, she reminds the importance of ownership of development programme and accountability, together with the fact that the donor-recipient partnership has to be a "two way street." See more: brusselsbriefings.net

Brussels, 17 October 2007. During the second Brussels Development Briefing, Hansj rg Neun, Director of the CTA, reflects on the importance of agriculture in European development cooperation and on the role of CTA. See more at www.brusselsbriefing.net

Brussels, 17 October 2007. After chairing the second panel of the Brussels Development Briefing on advancing African agriculture, Maria Manuela Dos Santos Luca, Ambassador of Mozambique to the EU, reflects on the main issues emerged from the day. See more at www.brusselsbriefing.net