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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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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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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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CWA preparations well advanced
Preparations for hosting the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) 6-12 October, 2014, in Paramaribo, Suriname, are well advanced, according to organisers of the event. Suriname, on 15 August, launched the 13th edition of the CWA with the introduction of the event’s logo as well as the logo for Suriname’s Agro Food Event 2014 (SAFE), an exhibition and trade fair that…
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Caribbean Plant Health Officials Meet to Discuss Strategies to Improve Food Security, Expand Agricultural Trade, and Protect Plant Resources in the Region
Grand Cayman Island, – 1st August,2014 – During the period July 29 to August 1, 2014, representatives from more than 20 Caribbean countries and territories and several partner organizations, including the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United States Department of…
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Caribbean Export Strengthens Relations in the Dominican Republic
Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) Pamela Coke-Hamilton addressed an audience of beneficiaries and key partners and extended congratulations to the firms that recently were awarded grants under the Agency’s Direct Assistance Grant Scheme on Tuesday August 12, 2014 at the Embassy Suites, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Throughout the 10th European Development Fund (EDF) programme Caribbean…
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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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