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Sargassum Seaweed-Derived Products, Technologies and Value Chains – The Focus of a CRFM Training Workshop on March 3rd, 2021 (The Bahamas one of four countries targeted for field work) By Staff1 / in Business, Highlight, In The News:, Nearby / on Tuesday, 02 Mar 2021 12:26 PM / Comments Off on Sargassum Seaweed-Derived Products, Technologies and Value Chains – The Focus of a CRFM Training Workshop on March 3rd, 2021 (The Bahamas one of four countries targeted for field work) / 1349
The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) and Plant & Food Research, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute, will host a virtual training workshop on Wednesday, 3 March 2021. The session which will be conducted with the assistance of Prof. Mona Webber of the Marine Science Centre, UWI, Mona Campus, Jamaica will focus on techniques for harvesting, handling, species identification and processing of Sargassum seaweed for initial evaluation.
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THE INTRODUCTION of innovation together with a relook at alternative livelihoods have emerged among a suite of recommendations to realise a Caribbean more prepared for the impacts of a changing climate.
This is reflected in the book chapter written by a group of noted local scientists in the book called
The Caribbean Blue Economy and edited by Peter Clegg, Robin Mahon, Patrick McConney, and Hazel A. Oxenford.
In it, researchers Professor Michael Taylor, Professor Mona Webber, Dr Tannecia Stephenson, and Felicia Whyte note the need for innovation and alternative livelihoods to help the region come out ahead of climate change impacts.
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The Prioritisation of research and development, together with tailored capacity building and awareness raising are said to be vital components of a needed overall framework to realise a resilient blue economy, especially in the face of a changing climate.
These are included in a raft of recommendations by respected Caribbean scientists who recently penned a chapter in the book titled The Caribbean Blue Economy, which was edited by Peter Clegg, Robin Mahon, Patrick McConney and Hazel A. Oxenford. It was published in October.
“A resilient blue economy across spatial and time scales should form part of an overarching, cohesive sustainable development framework in the region, even for physical, human, technical, financial and social systems indirectly associated with marine resources,” writes Jamaican researchers Dr Mona Webber and Dr Michael Taylor, who are both professors at The University of the West Indies, Dr Tannecia Stephenson and Felicia Whyte in their chapter of the boo