agriculture
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Family Farming Eases Food Shortages in Eastern Cuba
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Jan 7 2015 (IPS) – Meat and vegetables are never missing from the dinner table of Damaris González and Omar Navarro, since they get almost all of their food from their farm, La Revelación, on the outskirts of the city of Santiago de Cuba, 765 km east of the Cuban capital. On the three hectares they have…
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Push for small ruminants
The production of small ruminants is poised to take off in the region and the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture’s Representative to Barbados and Management Co-ordinator for the Caribbean Region, Ena Harvey, believes that in Barbados, sheep in particular will be quite successful. Speaking with The Barbados Advocate recently, Harvey noted that there are a number of regional initiatives…
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Antigua Hosts National Quality Infrastructure Dialogue on Agriculture
The second national dialogue on quality infrastructure (QI) came off in Antigua last month, providing the Antigua and Barbuda Bureau of Standards (ABBS) and local officials with a clear picture of the state of the agriculture sector as relates quality and standards. Held at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Stadium on November 13, 2014, Director of the ABBS, Mrs. Dianne…
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Responding to climate change from the grassroots up
GUNTHORPES, Antigua, Nov 7 2014 (IPS) – As concern mounts over food security, two community groups are on a drive to mobilise average people across Antigua and Barbuda to mitigate and adapt in the wake of global climate change, which is affecting local weather patterns and by extension, agricultural production. “I want at least 10,000 people in Antigua and Barbuda…
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FAO invests in developing Caribbean cassava industry
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Addressing agricultural revitalization and the high food import bill are two of the major challenges facing the countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Over the past ten years, the food import bill has doubled to almost US$4 billion, with 11% being spent on just two commodities – corn and wheat. At the same time, land…
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Profiles on climate-smart agriculture presented to standing-room-only World Bank audience
Building on prior experience to confront new challenges is a basic precept of ancient folk wisdom, which has informed actions in every sphere of human endeavor throughout history. Now, it also serves, logically, as the guiding principle for a novel effort aimed at getting a grip on climate change in the agriculture of Latin America and the Caribbean. With support…
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Coke-Hamilton Sees Diversification in Agro-Processing and Cultural Industries
Bridgetown, BARBADOS, November 12, 2014. While indicating the potential for the Caribbean to grow exports of agro-processed goods and increase earnings from the cultural industries a two-day conference on exports and the private sector has heard repeated calls for more Caribbean-centric data to guide policy. Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) Pamela Coke-Hamilton identified agro-processed goods…
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World’s hottest peppers produced and sold by Caribbean agriculture institute
ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad — The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) has been supplying Caribbean farmers with quality hot pepper seeds for the past 20 years. Currently, four main varieties are produced by CARDI and supplied through its distributor, Caribbean Chemicals and Agencies Ltd, to agro retail outlets from Belize in Central America; Cayman Islands and Jamaica in the…
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Government to adopt Red Stripe technology in Cassava Production
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 4, 2014 – Government will shortly be adopting the technology used by Red Stripe in its large-scale cassava production, so that an islandwide cassava industry can be sustained as the technology being being utilized is delivering the kind of yields that will make the industry economical. Minister of Agriculture, Derrick Kellier pointed out that with the Red…
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Youth in Agriculture Farm Programme growing
For the first time in the three year history of the Youth in Agriculture Farm Programme, hosted by the Inter American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture, (IICA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, and The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Council, there were 31 agricultural science students, from 9 Secondary schools, who were…
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