This publication reports on a three-year experiment to promote sustainable agriculture in four local mountain areas and presents a new methodological approach to ensure stakeholder participation. This new approach addresses the following different key aspects of European policies: the...

This evaluation aims to provide an overall independent assessment of the European Union’s cooperation and partnership relations with the Pacific region over 2006-2012. On the basis of this assessment, it provides recommendations to improve the EU’s current and future strategies, programmes...

This evaluation of the European Commission‟s (EC) co-operation with Malawi was carried out in 2010 and 2011. The main objectives of the evaluation were provision of an independent assessment to the Commission of the EU and to the wider public of the Commission`s past and current co-operation...

This review of the strategic evaluations carried out on behalf of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Co-operation and Development (DG DEVCO) is part of a DG DEVCO and European External Action Service (EEAS) exercise aimed at updating the European Consensus on...

This information note is part of the European Commission's Agenda for Change, in which sustainable agriculture is a priority. It begins with an executive summary (Chapter 2), followed by a discussion of the importance of smallholder access to agricultural markets in Chapter 3. Chapters 4 to 7...