agriculture
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YOUTH INTERESTED IN AGRICULTURE BUT NEED INTEGRATED SUPPORT PACKAGE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Young people in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are interested and involved in the agriculture sector, but need, land, finance, mentorship, and greater involvement in policy-making. This emerged as the consensus among youth across the Region on Monday as they began three days of interaction under the umbrella of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA)…
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‘WE CAN FEED OURSELVES’- AGRICULTURE MINISTER, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) “We can feed ourselves… if we manage the earth that God has given to us. We can feed ourselves and help some of the other countries with the excess and bring food cost down, bring the price down low because of mass production”, declared the Honourable Hilson Baptiste, Minister of Agriculture, Lands, Housing and…
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AGRICULTURE TAKES CENTRE-STAGE IN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Antigua and Barbuda will be a hive of activity next week as stakeholders in agriculture converge there for the eleventh Caribbean Week of Agriculture. The week of activities – 12-20 October, 2012, will be officially opened on Wednesday 17 October, 2012. This year, the Region’s premier agriculture event is being convened under the theme…
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Caribbean specialists call for more collaboration in plant health
he Caribbean Plant Health Directors’ Forum emerged out of the need for a regional mechanism for sharing of information, collaborating, guiding policies, and addressing relevant plant health issues of importance to the Region. The meetings are planned and convened by several agencies and organizations including the United States Department of Agriculture – Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (USDA-APHIS), the…
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REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY–GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE 10TH CARIBBEAN WEEK OF AGRICULTURE 12 OCTOBER, ROSEAU, DOMINICA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen I feel particularly honoured to have been afforded the opportunity to deliver these remarks at the Tenth Caribbean Week of Agriculture in the Nature Island. This occasion has special meaning for me, as I address you today as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), in my native land. It was…
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CARICOM seeks heightened cooperation with IICA
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque this week welcomed the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture (IICA) Dr Victor Villalobos as his first visitor from an institution since assuming office on August 15. “I believe that it is not insignificant that the first visit to me as Secretary-General is from the head of…
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CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL (AG) CALLS FOR PLEDGES TO HAITI TO BE HONOURED
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) “The world’s pledged generosity to Haiti has little value until and unless it translates into improved conditions for the people of that country.” This is the view of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Acting Secretary-General as she received, on Thursday, Letters of Credence from the Plenipotentiary Representative of Italy to CARICOM, His Excellency Paolo Serpi,…
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Agricultural specialists review CARICOM agricultural policy
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — The multi-faceted role of the agriculture as a main driver of the regional economy was underscored recently, as experts in the field of agriculture and trade gathered in Georgetown, Guyana, to review the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Common Agricultural Policy (CCAP). The policy was created to assist member states in agricultural policy formulation, planning, implementation and the monitoring…
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RE-ENERGISING AGRICULTURE AND DECREASING DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN FOOD AID KEY TO HAITI’S RECOVERY – P.J. PATTERSON
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) “The Haiti of the future must be completely different and significantly different from the Haiti of the recent past,” the Most Honourable Percival J. Patterson said at the International Donors Conference on Haiti, Wednesday, 31 March 2010. The Conference was held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, to mobilise support for the…
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STOP TALKING AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY – FAO REPRESENTATIVE IN GUYANA TELLS AGRICULTURE SPECIALISTS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr. Lystra Fletcher-Paul, Country Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FOA) of the United Nations in Guyana, on Monday charged specialists in the agriculture and trade arena to take affirmative action for food and nutrition security in the Region. She was addressing delegates at the Workshop for the Formulation of a Regional Food…
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