This FAO Guidelines examines issues specific to those sectors, and suggest the processes, information requirements, policy directions, planning tools and possible interventions that are necessary for ICAM (Integrated coastal area management and agriculture).

Agriculture has an important place in the economy of each of the four countries and the CARICOM, although its importance varies considerably from country to country. Women play important roles in agriculture in all of the countries studied. Women's roles and contributions to agriculture, access to extension and other services and literacy and basic education are some of the issues discussed

Gender issues continue to be important in the development of educational policy and the planning of new initiatives. The Extension, Education and Communication Service carried out five case studies on the enrolment of women in higher and intermediate agricultural education. These case studies are summarized and consolidated into this report

The social and political upheavals in Cambodia over the past three decades have had a serious negative impact on the national development infrastructure. A fundamental question in relation to the achievement of the agricultural and rural development goals of Cambodia is the lack of even a minimal base of appropriately trained human resources to rehabilitate and modernise the sector.