Koen Dekeyser News Today

This project, funded by the European Climate Foundation, aims to create and share new knowledge and evidence on the state of the Africa-EU partnership on climate change, stimulate public debate on EU/AU interests, perceptions, priorities and power in a more challenging geopolitical environment, and generate clear and feasible recommendations for strengthening AU-EU cooperation between now and 2025.

The Rome-based Agencies (RBAs) play a vital role in supporting food systems transformations and providing governments, institutions and communities with assistance in food system adaptation. To strengthen the RBAs’ integration into the food-climate nexus, this brief presents three possibilities at the country and global level.

In twin papers, Poorva Karkare, Alfonso Medinilla, Hanne Knaepen and Koen Dekeyser cover the state of play on the climate debate between the EU and Africa focusing on green energy and industrialisation, and climate adaptation.

Brussels accused of using sustainability push as pretext to throwing up trade barriers to the rest of the world.

European agriculture ministers have called for higher domestic farm output, amid food security worries, and a looming food crisis in Africa. Many African countries, eg Benin, Egypt, Sudan, Madagascar, and Burundi, are almost entirely, or exclusively, depe...

Ukraine and Russia are big exporters, especially when it comes to wheat, and many African countries are highly dependent on food and agricultural imports. Hanne Knaepen and Koen Dekeyser look at the effects of the Ukraine-Russia war on food security in North Africa and discuss what Europe can do to address these.