agriculture
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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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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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HAITIANS MAXIMISE RADIO TO SHARE INFORMATION IN AGRICULTURE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) With eight hundred thousand large and small farmers out of a population of nine million Haiti is said to have a vibrant agriculture sector. However among the longstanding challenges facing the sector is slow pace of information flow between policy makers, producers and the public. In order to overcome this information deficit, officials in…
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CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THE CARIBBEAN FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean needs to have more investment in agriculture if the sector is to match the increasing demand to produce more food in order to ensure food security for the Caribbean. According to Jose Fonseca, a senior policy maker with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Development (CTA), while the Caribbean continues to…
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AGRICULTURE EXPERTS CALL FOR PARTNERSHIP WITH JOURNALISTS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A major challenge facing the agriculture sector which needs to be addressed urgently is the lack of information from the sector to the public. To this end experts in agriculture from Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states have agreed that they must build relationship with journalists as a means of bridging the information divide.…
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REMARKS BY THE HONOURABLE ROBERT M. PERSAUD, MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, GUYANA, ON THE OCCASION OF THE THIRTY-SECOND MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED) (AGRICULTURE), 16-18 SEPTEMBER 2009, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Guyana on the occasion of the 32nd Special meeting of the Agriculture COTED. I am saddened to learn that this may very well be the final Agricultural COTED for 2009, and indeed for quite some time. I am saddened because there seems to be so much that remains to be done…
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