March 8, 2022. “Planes with pesticides would spray the fields where my father toiled to ensure banana production in the 70’s’.”
Carmen recalls her childhood, growing up on a Banana Plantation, in the coastal district of Saramacca in Suriname.
Starting as a...
Port of Spain, Trinidad – Thirty-two farmers from Penal and Exchange in Trinidad successfully expanded their production knowledge of cassava through the Farmer Field Schools (FFS).
The project, funded by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and executed by the Food...
18 September 2017
Background
As a net food importing country, Saint Kitts and Nevis is relatively food-insecure and vulnerable to extreme climatic events, as well as to global economic shocks caused by increasing food or energy prices. The Government is seeking to create employment...