The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has tapped colleagues in the Investment Center Division (TCI) to assist in the preparation of future agriculture sector policies for the Caribbean region. The request in the first phase of the collaboration consists of data gathering to create a state of food report for 19 borrowing countries of the CDB, in which future policies can be shaped based on the results of the surveying.

Due to the nature and complexity of the project, TCI brought in FAO’s policy heavyweights in the Agrifood Economics Division (ESA) due to their prior wealth of knowledge in the creation of state of reports for the Organization – namely the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) and the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI).

We spoke with economists in ESA and TCI, Carlos Mielitz, Cristian Morales, Roble Sabrie and Dino Francescutti, to learn more about the upcoming project.