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Caribbean COVID-19 Food Security & Livelihoods Impact Survey - Round 1

The COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching impacts on how people earn a living and meet critical needs. The Caribbean COVID-19 Food Security and Livelihoods Impact Survey was launched by CARICOM to rapidly gather data on impacts to livelihoods, food security and access to markets. Prepared by the ...

Solar farm in Guyana to be commissioned soon

(Department of Public Information) Very soon, residents of Mabaruma, Region One (in Guyana) will benefit from an improved power supply when the new solar farm is added to the generation mix. The construction and installation of the $264Million solar farm is now complete and the contractor is curren...

The Caribbean Reiterates “1.5 Degrees Celsius to Stay Alive”

By Kenton X. Chance BRIDGETOWN, (InterPressService) – If there is one lesson that Dominican Reginald Austrie has learnt from the devastation Hurricane Maria brought to his country last September, it is the need for “resilience, resilience, resilience”. And it is not jus...

Facilitating Intra-Regional Agri-Food Trade

This Brief: Informs of the recent study on Non-Tariff Measures (NTM) and Non-Tariff Barriers (nTB), and their impacts on intra-regional agri-food trade. Clarifies, in a concise manner, the context of this long-standing issue and the difference between nTMs and nTBs. Calls for consensus on the need ...

Caribbean fish stocks dwindling as illegal fishing intensifies

"Biodiversity in the Caribbean Sea is at serious risk, scientists are warning, with illegal fishing reducing fish stocks and placing the marine environment under increasing strain." “I cannot say what it’s due to or if there are external fact...

Saint Lucia adopts climate-smart cassava cultivation, encourages production of blended bread

  The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) is spearheading a project which will not only increase the cultivation of cassava throughout the Region but also encourages the production of cassava blended bread as a healthier alternative to the traditional white bread. Cassava is e...

Grenada agriculture sector storming back

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COTED green-lights Agriculture Regional Emergency Response team

The Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) has approved the Regional Agriculture Emergency Response Sub-Committee to  provide prompt  action to help the agriculture sector in Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States to rebound after natural disasters. Approval cam...

Antigua and Barbuda adopts ‘different vision’ for agriculture

With food security as its priority, the government of Antigua and Barbuda is pursuing a “different vision” as it moves to rebuild the agriculture sector of Barbuda which was destroyed following the passage of Hurricane Irma in September. That vision focuses on improving resilience and d...

Caribbean storms show urgency of rethinking aid for small island states

A series of devastating storms in the Caribbean has highlighted the vulnerability of small island states, where a single hurricane can undo years of development and plunge prosperous households into poverty from one day to the next. Hurricane Irma turned 90 percent of homes on Barbuda to rubble and...

Caribbean COVID-19 Food Security & Livelihoods Impact Survey - Round 1

Solar farm in Guyana to be commissioned soon

The Caribbean Reiterates “1.5 Degrees Celsius to Stay Alive”

Facilitating Intra-Regional Agri-Food Trade

Caribbean fish stocks dwindling as illegal fishing intensifies

Saint Lucia adopts climate-smart cassava cultivation, encourages production of blended bread

Grenada agriculture sector storming back

COTED green-lights Agriculture Regional Emergency Response team

Antigua and Barbuda adopts ‘different vision’ for agriculture

Caribbean storms show urgency of rethinking aid for small island states

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