CHAPTER EIGHTEEN AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY ARTICLE 105 Scope of Co-operation 1. The overall objectives of co-operation in the agricultural sector are the achievement of food security and rational agricultural production within the Community. To this end, the Partner States undertake to adopt a scheme for the rationalisation of agricultural production with a view to promoting complementarity and specialisation in and the sustainability of national agricultural programmes in order to ensure: (a) a common agricultural policy; (b) food sufficiency within the Community; (c) an increase in the production of crops, livestock, fisheries and forest products for domestic consumption, exports within and outside the Community and as inputs to agro-based industries within the Community; and (d) post harvest preservation and conservation and improved food processing. 2. For purposes of paragraph 1 of this Article, the Partner States undertake to co-operate in specific fields of agriculture, including: (a) the harmonisation of agricultural policies of the Partner States; (b) the development of food security within the Partner States and the Community as a whole, through the production and supply of foodstuffs; (c) agro-meteorology and climatology to promote the development of early climatological warning systems within the Community; (d) the development and application of agricultural training and research and extension services; (e) the adoption of internationally accepted quality standards for food processing; 80

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