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Tasks & timing

The Project targets at three articulated specific objectives:

·Launching self-sustained national processes of interaction with EU Cotton Policy.

·Contributing to international mutual understanding on cotton production, in particular between Europe and Africa.

·Setting up a cotton sector specific research network on socio-economic issues.

It is retained to devote three Work Packages ( WP1, WP2 and WP3) to address distinctly these objectives, in addition to a WP destined to deal with the overall management of the Project.

Distinct outputs can be clearly identified for each WP with specific milestones:

Main Scheduled Actions	Completion Timing	Main expected outputs
Separate Interviews of cotton sector stakeholders	April 2007	Collection of opinions of the various cotton stakeholders
National sectoral seminar	May 2007	* Summary of the players' opinions about the New Cotton Policy in Europe (NCP) and its adjustment * Scientist report on the short term impact of the NCP
Intermediation to mutual visits between European and African cotton stakeholders	from March 2007	Possible implementation of mutual visits
Organization of an international cotton conference	May 2008	Research overviews on the rationale and evolution of cotton policies in countries which have been providing support
Set up of a network of social scientists on cotton production impacts	since March 2007	Pool of scientists to provide information and references on existing research works or to implement additional studies

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