FAO in Jamaica, Bahamas and Belize

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10 December 2020
Belize celebrated its first World Soil Day with a Ceremony and the launch of a video on Soil in Belize, followed by a Webinar featuring institutions that have invested in soil testing programmes.  To launch and commemorate the first World Soil Day in Belize, The Research and Innovation Center of the...
09 December 2020
On December 2, 2020, students from across Kingston and St. Andrew, Jamaica shared discourses on Soil Biodiversity during the World Soil Day Public Speaking Competition. Held at the Hope Gardens, the competition focused on the World Soil Day Theme, “Keep Soil Alive. Protect Soil Biodiversity”. Ms Jamila Samuda from the Holy Childhood High...
08 December 2020
On November 30, 2020, thirty-six farmers graduated from a 10-week Farmer Field School on Gravity Drip Irrigation under a Joint United Nations project. The Farmer Field School forms a part of a wider intervention to strengthen human resilience in North Clarendon and West Kingston. Funded by the United Nations Trust Fund...
08 December 2020
Join FAO Brussels as we amplify the voices of Small Island Developing States on the structural vulnerabilities and the looming impacts on food systems due to the pandemic, on Thursday, December 10, 2020
03 December 2020
The United Nations calls for the targeting of new policies and investments in the lagging territories of Latin America and the Caribbean.