climate smart agriculture

  • Photo of Government of Guyana, CARICOM Development Fund ink US$18M Agricultural Agreement

    Government of Guyana, CARICOM Development Fund ink US$18M Agricultural Agreement

    The Government of Guyana and the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) yesterday signed a US$18 million financing agreement to kickstart the Agricultural and Infrastructural Development Programme (AIDP), which will see over 4,300 farmers across the ten regions of Guyana benefitting, with forty per cent of the beneficiaries being women and youth. The programme will allow for a further boost to Guyana’s…

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  • Photo of Remarks by the CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett at the Opening Ceremony of the 18th Caribbean Week of Agriculture, Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 7 October 2024

    Remarks by the CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett at the Opening Ceremony of the 18th Caribbean Week of Agriculture, Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 7 October 2024

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) – I am very pleased to be here at the Opening Ceremony of the Eighteenth Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA). As one of our flagship events, the Caribbean Week of Agriculture is critical to increasing awareness of agriculture, food and nutrition security in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and promoting investment in the Region’s food…

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  • What does ‘climate-smart agriculture’ really mean? New tool breaks it down

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Aug 14 2017 (IPS) – A Trinidadian scientist has developed a mechanism for determining the degree of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) compliance with respect to projects, processes and products. This comes as global attention is drawn to climate-smart agriculture as one of the approaches to mitigate or adapt to climate change. Steve Maximay says his Climate-Smart Agriculture Compliant…

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  • Photo of Developing climate smart agriculture in Grenada

    Developing climate smart agriculture in Grenada

    ST.GEORGE’S GRENADA JANUARY 15, 2016- GIS: Government is partnering with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and people in action to establish self-sufficient communities through Permaculture, or the use of modern science for sustainability. John Stollmeyer Director of Caribbean Permaculture Consultants told GIS the idea is to get communities to be creative with ideas for production that are inexpensive to start, but…

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