25×2025 Initiative
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Food for Lunch webinar to focus on water management in agriculture
Our Food for Lunch webinar series will continue on Friday, 28 February at 12:30 pm, ECT. This one-hour virtual session will be conducted under the theme – ‘Exploring Sustainable Water Management Practices in the Caribbean – An Agriculture and Food Security Perspective’. The Caribbean Water and WasteWater Association (CWWA) is collaborating with the Secretariat to host the webinar. Representatives from the…
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Advances being made to encourage youth in agriculture
The Caribbean Community Secretariat continues to make advances in its quest to encourage the Region’s youth to become more involved in the agriculture sector. Last year, the Secretariat consolidated its approach to youth with several targeted programmes including the continuation of the ‘I am CARICOM: Youth in agriculture’ programme, and the introduction of a climate-smart initiative that has benefitted youth…
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Major achievements under food security initiative
The 25 by 2025 food and nutrition security initiative has recorded major achievements including increased production across the Region, and the implementation of key agricultural policies, the CARICOM Secretariat’s Agriculture Programme has reported. The Initiative aims to reduce the Region’s high food import bill by 25 per cent by the end of this year. Ms. Milagro Matus, Deputy Programme Manager,…
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Seeing Vision 25 x 2025 at Work: Guyana’s Private Sector Investing in Dairy Industry Transformation
“This project has a lot of potential to transform the Guyanese economy and the entire industry within CARICOM. One of the things that I like about the project is the integration of the community and the fact that the community [of Moblissa] is also being included and lifted up. I am also very happy to see today that Vision 25…
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