“Despite there having been no Economic Partnership Agreements (APE) negotiated between the European Union and West African (AO) countries by the end of January 2010, Senegal nonetheless benefits from APE Agreements signed at the Lomé Convention of 1975 …

“Senegal is a signatory of the Cotonou Agreement of 2000, an economic agreement between developing countries and the EU which is not in line with the rules of the World Trade Organisation (OMC) due to it not being based on any form of reciprocity. It i …

“The document attempts to clarify in its first part a few elements of the definition on the terms employed, prior to concentrate on the general lessons learned from the analysis of the involvement of producers’ organizations in the political process an …

“This document is based on two capitalization studies conducted in Senegal on the participation of producers’ organizations in land reform and economic partnership agreement negotiations. Based on these two experiences, it attempts to provide a few ele …