Desmond Brown writes about challenges due to climate change in terms of agriculture and land use, such as drought, floods, declines in domestic crop production themes that were discussed at the recent Caribbean and Pacific Agri-Food Forum. Here are excerpts: Climate change represents a clear and growing threat to food security in the Caribbean with differing…
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Article by April 17, 2021
KINGSTOWN – Farmers in St Vincent’s breadbasket region are counting thousands of dollars in losses after the decimation of their crops from the erupting La Soufriere volcano’s ashfall. The fallout could trigger food shortages and price hikes in Barbados, some market watchers said Friday.
In the villages of the island’s southern farming heartland, Mesopotamia Valley, life is once again springing forth from the earth. But for hundreds of root crops, bananas and other vegetables, it’s much too late.
Some growers hope and pray that with a reliable water supply slowly returning, they can revive their crops in time for export to Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and elsewhere in CARICOM.
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be implementing a Food and Nutrition Security Project Small Grants Program
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is among three Countries to benefit from a Food and Nutrition Security Project Small Grants Program.
The Program is being administered by the University of the West Indies and The University of Technology, with funding from the International Development Research Center of Canada.
Grant funding of seven thousand US dollars was awarded to the Greiggs Production & Marketing Association; the Women in Agriculture and Rural Development and Mesopotamia Poultry & Small Ruminant Producers Association.
Speaking at the handing over of the Grants on Friday, Coordinator of the Emergency Centre for Trans-boundary Animal Diseases ECTAD, Jethro Green, highlighted the importance of the project