Food Security
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T&T, Guyana in move to boost food security
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Devant Maharaj, Minister of Food Production, told the T&T Guardian that a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is being prepared to bolster relations between Guyana and T&T with respect to food security. He was speaking at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the car park for the Norris Deonarine Wholesale Market, Macoya. He added:…
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Caribbean Export to help Regional Food Producers with €500,000 Special Assistance Programme (EDF)
CARIFORUM food exporters will benefit from some much needed assistance when the Caribbean Export Development Agency rolls out a €500,000 Special Assistance Programme funded under the 10th EDF programme of the European Union (EU), to help prepare them for existing and anticipated food safety regulations in key export markets. CARIFORUM food exporters will benefit from some much needed assistance when…
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We are rapidly mortgaging our food sovereignty – George
Over the past years there has been a significant decline in traditional exports to the European Union (EU) while our extra-regional food import bill is estimated at around $3.5 to $4 billion US dollars annually. That’s according to Acting Prime Minister Ambrose George who was at the time addressing the opening ceremony of the Climate Change and Science and Technology…
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Agri ministry inks CDN$5M food security research project
In an effort to increase food production, improve nutrition, and achieve a Professor Chandra A. Madramootoo of Mc Gill University (left) inking documents with Permanent Secretary of the Agriculture Ministry, George Jervis reduction in the food import bill within the Caribbean, Guyana, like other countries is moving purposefully in a positive direction A CDN$5M project was yesterday awarded to the…
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Jamaica buys sugar from Guyana to stave off shortage
The Jamaican Government has placed an order for sugar from Guyana to avert shortages in that CARICOM country. Quoting the Agriculture Ministry, the Jamaican Observer yesterday said that it has put in place measures to avert a shortage of sugar on the local market and has urged distributors not to hoard the product. In a statement Wednesday, the Ministry assured…
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FINANCIAL CRISIS, FUEL AND FOOD SECURITY, CLIMATE CHANGE IN FOCUS AT THIRD CARICOM/CUBA SUMMIT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Diplomatic relations spanning 36 years between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba will be consolidated at the Third CARICOM/Cuba Summit, as Caribbean leaders seek to explore and exchange ideas on how to solve critical issues affecting the Region. On December 8, 2008 in Santiago de Cuba, Heads of Government of CARICOM Members States, two…
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COTED TO FOCUS ON FOOD SECURITY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As the Region continues to identify and implement measures to achieve food security in a time of spiraling cost of living, the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will meet in a special session next week to deal with agriculture. The Twenty-Seventh Special Meeting of the COTED (Agriculture)…
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BOOST FOOD PRODUCTION TO HELP WITH FOOD SECURITY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) H.E Irwin Larocque, Assistant Secretary-General for Trade and Economic Integration at the CARICOM Secretariat told the first formal meeting of Plant Health officials from across the Caribbean, that the Region needs to produce more than it consumes, in order to tackle the issue of rising food prices. In his address to in the opening…
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STRIDES MADE BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN IN CARIBBEAN FOOD SECURITY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) While the Caribbean has made some strides in addressing the issue of food security, much work needs to be done to meet some pressing challenges that continue to face the Caribbean in this critical area of development. This was underscored by ambassador Irwin Larocque, CARICOM Secretariat’s Assistant Secretary-General for Regional Trade and Economic Integration…
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REMARKS BY AMB. IRWIN LAROCQUE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL, REGIONAL TRADE AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) SECRETARIAT AT THE OPENING OF THE 6TH MEETING OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ITALY FAO/CARICOM/CARIFORUM FOOD SECURITY PROJECT AND NATIONAL COORDINATORS FOCAL POINT RETREAT, 10 JULY 2007, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Mr. Chairperson; Dr. L. Barbara Graham, FAO Representative; Mr. Bruce Lauckner; Executive Director (ag), CARDI Ms. Emanuela Benini, Director, Italian Cooperation, Regional office for Central America and the Caribbean, Embassy of Italy, Guatemala; Mr. Greg Rawlings, Project Consultant National Coordinators and Focal Points; Colleagues All: It gives me great pleasure to be with you this morning in the opening session…
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