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  • Photo of Remarks by Michael Hailu, Director, ACP/EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)  Caribbean Week of Agriculture, 6-10 October, 2014, Paramaribo, Suriname at the Opening Ceremony  8 October, 2014

    Remarks by Michael Hailu, Director, ACP/EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)  Caribbean Week of Agriculture, 6-10 October, 2014, Paramaribo, Suriname at the Opening Ceremony 8 October, 2014

    Please allow me to thank you, Mr. President  for inviting us to attend the 13th Caribbean Week of Agriculture in your beautiful country, Suriname. I am grateful for the warm welcome and generous hospitality extended to us since our arrival in Paramaribo. 2014 is a very special year for us in many different ways. It is an important year for…

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  • Roles for both public, private sectors to push agriculture – CARICOM DSG at CWA opening

    Both the public and private sectors must play their roles in order for the Region’s agricultural sector to achieve its full potential, Ambassador Dr. Manorma Soeknandan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) said Wednesday. The Deputy Secretary-General made the point as she delivered remarks at the official opening of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) 2014, in Paramaribo, Suriname.…

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  • Photo of Climate change has serious implications for fishers, livestock farmers -Caribbean Week of Agriculture hears

    Climate change has serious implications for fishers, livestock farmers -Caribbean Week of Agriculture hears

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The need for robust information and evidence-based policies to combat climate change was underscored during the week as participants at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) focused their attention on the effects climate change was having on livestock and marine resources. While the damage climate change is having on crops is widely observed and…

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  • Photo of Caribbean Family farmers neglected in development policy, says expert

    Caribbean Family farmers neglected in development policy, says expert

    by Panoscope- Panos Caribbean Paramaribo, Suriname. October 8, 2014. Food and Agriculture Organisation expert, Dr John R Deep Ford, is urging increased attention, investment and policy interventions to improve the economic capacity of family farmers in the Caribbean who he says have largely been neglected by policymakers. ‘This is the International Year of Family Farming – a year to focus…

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  • Photo of Farmers welcome CWA focus

    Farmers welcome CWA focus

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Farmers in the Region on Monday welcomed the attention being placed on family farming, but cautioned against the absence of women and youth, shifting goalposts and ignoring cultural elements in the development of policy for the sub-sector. The advice was provided from the floor at a seminar titled `Caribbean Agricultural Transformation: the Role of…

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  • Political will needed to unlock CARICOM’s free trade in food

    Caribbean ministers of agriculture will Friday make another push to break down artificial non-tariff trade barriers but an expert at the Inter American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) says progress will depend largely on political will. “It’s political will! Really and truly it comes back down to the political will and for countries, for Heads of Government to understand…

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  • Guyana reports record export of rice

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Sept 26, CMC – Guyana says it will export an estimated 400,000 tonnes of rice by the end of October, the highest ever in the country’s history. Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy said after many troubling years, Guyana now has the potential to o again emerge as the bread basket of the Caribbean and that while efforts are…

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  • CARIBBEAN-AGRICULTURE-Regional countries participating in IICA project

    AN JOSE, Costa Rica, Jun 16, – CMC – The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) says it is supporting institutions involved in pesticides registration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) try to generate data that make it possible for them to promote maximum residue levels (MRL) for small scale crops in the region. It said the project…

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  • CARIBBEAN-AGRICULTURE-IICA signs agreement to strengthen agricultural cooperatives in the Caribbean

    SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Jun 4, CMC – The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) says it will cooperate with the Regional Office for the Americas of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA-Americas) to promote and strengthen agricultural and agro-industrial cooperatives in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Under the terms of the technical cooperation agreement, the two organizations will…

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  • Villalobos re-elected at IICA Director General

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, CMC – Victor M. Villalobos was on Wednesday re-elected Director General of the Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA). The Mexican national, who holds a doctorate from the University of Alberta in Canada, will serve from 2014 to 2018. Caribbean agriculture ministers join their counterparts in re-electing Villalobos said the IABA had “acknowledged the work of a team…

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