agriculture

March 30, 2015
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Caribbean Fisheries Forum to review regional spiny lobster declaration

Heads of national fisheries authorities from the seventeen (17) Member States of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), as well as observers and partner agencies, on Monday began participating in the 13th Meeting of the Caribbean Fisheries Forum in Grenada. The two-day meeting is being held at the Flamboyant Hotel in St. George’s. The representatives will review the status of fisheries and aquaculture…
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March 30, 2015
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Transforming Caribbean Cocoa

By the Caribbean Journal staff The University of the West Indies’ Cocoa Research Centre has embarked on a major new project: to transform the region’s cocoa sector. The new project, dubbed the International Fine Cocoa Innovation Centre, is the brainchild of the Cocoa Research Centre and its partners, funded by a $2.17 million grant from the European Union. It’s all…
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March 27, 2015
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Caribbean Export Awards €700,000 to Agri-business and Handicraft Firms in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) has awarded €700,000 to 31 firms and Business Support Organizations (BSOs) in Haiti and the Dominican Republic via the Binational Grants Programme, as part of the Haiti/Dominican Republic Binational Programme, Commerce Component, funded by the European Union under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF). The announcement was made at the launch and reimbursement workshops…
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March 26, 2015
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Ministry of Agriculture to Set Up Plant Health Clinics

KINGSTON, March 26, 2015 – The Ministry of Agriculture is to establish several plant health clinics islandwide as the Government ramps up efforts to address the issue of pests and diseases affecting crops. The initiative comes under the newly launched “Plantwise” programme, which is being co-ordinated by the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International (CABI). Twenty plant doctors are to be trained…
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March 18, 2015
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Caribbean community climate-smarting fisheries, but slowly

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Wednesday March 18, 2015, IPS – Caribbean nations have begun work on a plan to ‘climate smart’ the region’s fisheries as part of overall efforts to secure food supplies. The concept is in keeping with plans by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) to improve the “integration of agriculture and climate readiness” as the region prepares to…
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March 18, 2015
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Sweet Potato a potential crop for future climate in the Caribbean

A case study presented recently by Jamaican, Applied Climate Researcher to the 2nd Caribbean Weather Information Generator (CARIWIG) Workshop in Barbados has identified sweet potato as a potential climate change adaptation crop. The CARIWIG project, which is funded by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), is supporting risk-based decision-making in the Region. The project provides locally relevant information on…
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March 16, 2015
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FAO promoting cassava root as a food crop in Caribbean

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 15, 2015—The Food and Agriculture Organization’s Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean is intensifying its promotion of the cassava root as a food crop in the region. The FAO is using opportunities such as the recent Barbados Agrofest to dispel myths associated with the cassava, and to promote its wide-ranging health benefits and diversity in food use. Cassava,…
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March 4, 2015
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Cultivating a Caribbean Specialty

The production of cacao is globally concentrated in the regions between 10 degrees north and 10 degrees south of the equator, namely Central and South America, West Africa and the Caribbean. The Caribbean is held in high regard as a cacao-producing region because it yields a fine, aromatic bean. In fact, fine flavoured cacao accounts for only 5% of the world production…
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March 1, 2015
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CARICOM Agriculture Ministers tour cutting-edge Bahamian agri-project

Llonella Gilbert Bahamas Information Services NORTH ANDROS, The Bahamas — Ministers of Agriculture of the Caribbean Community toured the Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Science Institute just prior to CARICOM’s opening of the 26th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean in Nassau, February 26-27. The Bahamas Minister of Agriculture, Marine Resources and Local Government the…
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February 27, 2015
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FAO aligns work to assist Regional Agri Plans

The United Nations Food& Agriculture Organization is aligning its global, regional, sub-regional and national work processes to cohesively assist the development strategies of Caribbean countries, the Director General of FAO Dr. José Graziano da Silva said during the opening of the Meeting of Caribbean Ministers of Agriculture with the Director General. “This helps ensure that our efforts are coherent, add…
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