barbados, isn t it, that 80% of the food consumed in barbados has to come from outside. so can you make agriculture attractive to young people? absolutely. i think the reality is that agriculture is, again we are thinking in the old way. we have to reframe our thinking. we need to do verticalfarming, bring vertical farming, bring technology into verticalfarming, bring technology into farming, bring their methodologies into farming. things that young people are naturally drawn to. when people think of agriculture they are thinking of a fork and hoe and digging ground that is not very fertile. we are in another place, we are another space. we are thinking of vertical farming, using greenhouses more effectively, we are also thinking of medicinal marijuana, it is an opportunity for a number of locals in the region to generate revenue, maybe an area where they have tremendous expertise. and then to use our revenue to help countries in the caribbean region. i also think we have to realise th
question is, given the impact of covid 19 on question is, given the impact of covid 19 on the question is, given the impact of covid 19 on the tourism i of covid 19 on the tourism sector, of covid 19 on the tourism sector, we of covid 19 on the tourism sector, we can t of covid 19 on the tourism sector, we can t only- of covid 19 on the tourism sector, we can t only rely. of covid 19 on the tourism i sector, we can t only rely on tourism sector, we can t only rely on tourism 50 sector, we can t only rely on tourism. so what sector, we can t only rely on tourism. so what other - sector, we can t only rely on tourism. so what other for l tourism. so what other for diversifying tourism. so what other for diversifying our tourism. so what other for diversifying our economy, | tourism. so what other for i diversifying our economy, for example diversifying our economy, for example fortifying i diversifying our economy, for| example fortifying agriculture to make example
the caribbean people because many people do not fully appreciate what is going to be required to do these things sustainably. covid 19, it taught us that we cannot rely on tourism. covid 19 taught us that the old model of tourism will not work in the long term. covid 19 taught us we have to be able to grow our own food, harvest our own fish in the region, we have to have a balanced approach. ashley? thank you balanced approach. ashley? thank you for balanced approach. ashley? thank you for the balanced approach. ashley? thank you for the question i thank you for the question again. thank you for the question again. i thank you for the question again, iagree thank you for the question again, i agree with you, mr minister again, i agree with you, mr minister. we really need to look minister. we really need to look at minister. we really need to look at a minister. we really need to look at a diversification of our look at a diversification of our economies, as it relates
question. i am the ministerfor environmental affairs and blue economy, the blue economy in itself is almost a paradox. i have been dealing with this for a long time. you want to preserve on the one hand lotion space and you want to produce at the same time affiliation space. these are conflicting ideas. how do you do that in a way that is sustainable? i have a view that we have to protect first of all the ocean space, we have two give credence to the idea that the climate matters, but there is more value i think, beyond extractive values. if you look at the ocean space, people believe all you can get as extraction. and that is not reality. there is value inherent to ocean in itself. so that tourism, when it comes to barbados, tourists have the opportunity to see a total, they have an opportunity to see a fish, and that is what you call inherent value. many people believe we ought to catch those turtles and catch those fish, it is going to require a long conversation with the barbadian
are on the front line of what is happening in the front line of changes in the climate. the reality is for us in the caribbean are hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, many of us in the region are affected by volcanoes. we ll have landslide, tsunamis, storm surges, so there are lots of things happening in the caribbean. we are really on the frontline. and the question askedis frontline. and the question asked is what are we going to do about it, i believe the intensity, the frequency, because it is changing. the reality is first i think we have to accept that things are changing. we have to plan for it. barbados and the caribbean has taken a number of steps in terms of our planning, to be more prepared. one of the worst things we can do as a region is to act as if we are responding, reacting to something we should have seen coming. a lot of these changes we should see coming. firstly as you said, i think the caribbean region has to work together as one. when we speak on the internationa