The Courier AFRICA-CARIBBEAN-PACIFIC - EUROPEAN COMMUNITY N° 133 MAY-JUNE 1992. Environment and Development

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AFRICA-CARIBBEAN-PACIFIC - EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
Published every two months N° 133 MAY-JUNE 1992
and Development THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITY THE 69 ACP STATES
BELGIUM ANGOLA GAMBIA ST. LUCIA
ANTIGUA & BARBUDA GHANA ST. VINCENT AND DENMARK
BAHAMAS GRENADA THE GRENADINES FRANCE
BARBADOS GUINEA SAO TOME & PRINCIPE GERMANY
BELIZE SENEGAL A BISSAU (Federal Rep.)
BENIN GUYANA SEYCHELLES
GREECE
BOTSWANA HAITI SIERRA LEONE
IRELAND
BURKINA FASO JAMAICA SOLOMON ISLANDS
ITALY
BURUNDI KENYA SOMALIA
LUXEMBOURG CAMEROON KIRIBATI SUDAN
NETHERLANDS CAPE VERDE LESOTHO SURINAME
CENTRAL AFRICAN PORTUGAL LIBERIA SWAZILAND
REPUBLIC MADAGASCAR TANZANIA SPAIN
CHAD MALAWI TOGO UNITED KINGDOM
COMOROS MALI TONGA
CONGO MAURITANIA TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
CÔTE D'IVOIRE MAURITIUS TUVALU
General Secretariat
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of the ACP Group
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This list does not prejudice the status of these countries and territories now or in the future.
The Courier uses maps from a variety of sources. Their use does not imply recognition of any particular boundaries nor prejudice the status of any state or
territory.
Cover page: The Gathering Storm
(The ACP-EEC Courier and 'Graphic Design' - Sami Alouf) MEETING POINT: Daniel Assoumou Mba The Courier An agricultural economist from Cameroon,
Daniel Assoumou Mba has been running the AFRICA-CARIBBEAN-PACIFIC - EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
Technical Centre for Agricultural Cooper I No 133 — MAYJUNE 1992 ■
ation, CTA, since it was set up under Lomé II.
The most recent of the specialist ACPEEC
institutions to see the light of day, the CTA is CONTENTS
now well known to its ACP users. It is ready to
MEETING POINT help take up the challenges facing agronomics
researchers in Africa in the 1990s. Pages 2 to 4.
2. Daniel Assoumou Mba, Director of the CTA
COUNTRY REPORTS
5. COTE D'IVOIRE: Democracy: putting principles into
practice
7. Interview with Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara
11. w with Lambert Konan, Minister of Agriculture COUNTRY REPORTS
14. Interview with Alain Ekra, Minister of Health
17. The National Blood Transfusion Centre
COTE D'IVOIRE: For a long time, the 18. Seydou Diarra: from diplomat to industrialist
Republic of Côte d'Ivoire was regarded 20. The Opposition — 'Seeking to build a credible alternative
as a showcase of West Africa, and in Government'
22. The Basilica at Yamoussoukro : fact it remains so to a considerable
The Work of an Unfathomable Conscience extent. But, like most other African
23. ECCôte d'Ivoire cooperation
states, it has been shaken by a crisis on
26. PAPUA NEW GUINEA : two levels — economic and political.
Eldorado of the South Pacific? Democracy needs to be built on a
31. Interview with Prime Minister Rabbie Namaliu
foundation which has now been
35. Interview with Sir Michael Somare, Minister of Foreign
weakened by serious economic problems. What is to be done to surmount Affairs
these difficulties? The Courier investigates and speaks to Prime Minister 37. ECPapua New Guinea cooperation
Ouattara. Pages 5 to 25.
EUROPE
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: According to 41. Picture of young Europeans
the publicity, Papua New Guinea is
'The Eldorado of the South Pacific'
DOSSIER:
about to be discovered by the rest of the
Environment und Development world. It is certainly a land which is rich
in resources still to be exploited and
43. Environment and development
with a history of liberal economic
44. 'We have not inherited the land from our parents, we are
management, but it also has unique borrowing it from our children'
social and cultural traditions which do 46. The practical implications of the Earth Summit
48. Development and environmental monitoring by satellites not always lie comfortably with modern development concepts. The
56. Trends in the ozone layer Courier examines this dichotomy more closely. Pages 26 to 40.
60. Consequences of an increase in the greenhouse effect
64. Plants respond to changes in the climate
70. Ocean and climate
73. Environment, development and poverty
78. Desertification in Sanehan Africa
82. n control — The Community's approach
85. The European Community and tropical forests
88. Changes in livelihood strategies in northern Benin and their
environmental effects
91 Ecological problem solving — A look at the work of the
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
95, The European Community's approach to UNCED DOSSIER: Environment and Development
Sustainable development — a strategy for the 21st century
International environmental law in 1992 98. The deterioration of the environment
caused by various forms of pollution
CUL TURE AND THE ARTS threatens the very survival of humanity
— whether one looks at it in the health
102. King Ja Ja : the folk song and the man context or from the point of view of
economic development. With this in
mind, an "Earth Summit', which will CTA-BULLETIN
bring together the majority of the
world's states, will shortly convene in 103. Integrating science and tradition for pest management
Rio de Janeiro. The Dossier analyses BOOKS
the important issues at stake in the NEWS ROUND-UP (yellow pages)
CDI — Partnership discussion over the environment and
OPERATIONAL SUMMARY (blue pages) development. Pages 43 to 101.
Published in English and French. Writers oí signed articles bear sole responsibility for their contents. Reproduction authorised, subject to indication of origin. MEETING POINT
Daniel Assoumou MBA,
Director of the CTA
More than 36 000
questions answered in
1991
Cameroonian agronomist Daniel Assoumou Mba is
Head of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural
Cooperation (CTA), the last-born of the Lomé specialised
institutions.
► The CTA is the most recent of the picture, individually and nationally. But — Their hesitation was not due to any
ACP-ECjoint institutions. How long has it when it comes to exact knowledge by lack of a specific mandate. What they
been working? everyone involved in rural development, were worried about was whether the
well, there we have some work to put in, Centre should deal directly with the
— It has been operational since Fe which is why we are concentrating on problems of exploiting agricultural pro
bruary 1985. It was set up by Lomé II and jects or stick to one or two specific aspects opening up regional offices, focal points
I was appointed in June 1983. When I of agricultural development. What the at national level — as indeed the ACP-EC
started, I knew nothing about the CTA or Centre has to do, precisely, is to help the subcommittee on agricultural cooper
where it was or anything and it was when ACP countries get the scientific and ation has recommended — so that all the
I got to Brussels that they told me that it technical data they need to help them countries know what the Centre is doing.
was to be based at Ede-Wageningen for develop their farming and rural sectors.
the time being. I found that out in We have had an independent consultants'
Brussels. I had to try and set it up and ► That means that you are going to study and that is the best way of descri
recruit the first staff and that took the rest send people to all the ACP countries, does bing what we do, with the idea of the
of 1983 and the whole of 1984. it? transfer of technology and scientific and
technical knowhow being used for the
— No it does not ! The CTA's mandate development of ACP agriculture firmly in
► The Centre has become operational
says that the Centre has to use existing our sights. And added to this, to target
since then... How big is the staff now?
structures and that is what we are going our work better, there are things such as
to do. We shall encourage the running of literacy campaigns in rural areas. — All in all — from the chauffeur to
CTA activities within these structures, the porter and the director — 35.
using the CTA's means and the structures
► Do all the potential users in the ACP and personnel of the ACP States.
► How big is your operating budget