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Sustaining the Tuna Value Chain in Grenada
Tuna and tuna-like fishes, most notably the yellowfin and Atlantic sailfish make up about 70 percent of the reported catches in Grenada. With an estimated 2 550 tonnes of fish caught annually, fisheries play an important role in the Grenadian economy, providing employment and income, food and food security, while...
Grenada
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Practices
Establishing grass barriers along the contour to reduce water runoff and erosion during heavy rainfall
The agricultural sector in the Caribbean islands such as Grenada is extremely vulnerable to storms and hurricanes. Establishing grass barriers along the contour can help in reducing water runoff and erosion during heavy rainfall. Grass barriers provide erosion control on croplands and offer a cheaper and more sustainable alternative to...
Grenada
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Construction of hurricane-resistant poultry pen
The construction of low-cost and hazard‑resistant poultry units is a disaster mitigation measure as it ensures immediate post-disaster food availability and protects income sources. The construction of hurricane-resistant farm structures was recommended during a national workshop in Grenada as one of the most easily reproducible, effective, affordable, and sustainable disaster...
Grenada
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Routine tree management practices: pruning and cutting tree tops
The routine tree management practices, such as pruning and cutting tree tops have been identified as among the most cost effective, easy to replicate and highly sustainable agricultural risk reduction technologies currently implemented. These practices comprise of cutting tree tops and shrubs strengthens trees so that they better withstand hurricanes...
Grenada
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Diversified cropping system: strip cropping
Soil conservation is crucial to sustainable agriculture. This technology involves growing row crops, forages, small grains, or fallow in a systematic arrangement of equal width strips across a field. This arrangement of strips reduces water and wind-induced soil erosion. It also reduces the transport of sediment and other water-borne contaminants...
Grenada
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Soil conservation: contour ploughing
Contour ploughing mitigates the impacts of floods, storms, and landslides on the crops by reducing soil erosion up to 50 percent, controlling runoff water, increasing moisture infiltration and retention and thus enhancing soil quality and composition. This practice describes contour ploughing and contour beds which can be constructed manually using...
Grenada
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Newsletter article
Small-scale farmers to benefit from US$1.5-m project
Small-scale farmers in Jamaica and across five other Caribbean countries are being empowered to play greater roles in the food security of the region, through the ‘Sustainable, profitable value chains and market linkages in the Caribbean’ project.
The project which is estimated to cost some US$1.5 million was officially launched on...
Antigua and Barbuda - Barbados - Grenada - Jamaica - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
2015 - Jamaica Observer
Book
Petrocaribe: 10 años de lucha contra el hambre y la pobreza
La publicación "PETROCARIBE: 10 años de lucha contra el hambre. Lecciones Aprendidas", contiene la sistematización producto de una reciente investigación realizada por el Programa de Cooperación Venezuela-FAO, SANA, de las historias de éxito contra el hambre y la desnutrición consecuencia de planes y proyectos implementados en el marco de los...
Antigua and Barbuda - Belize - Dominican Republic - El Salvador - Grenada - Haiti - Jamaica - Nicaragua - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Suriname
2015 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
La yuca: una alternativa de desarrollo para pequeños agroempresarios
Técnicos agrícolas de 12 países de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) conocieron, en Costa Rica, nuevas alternativas para agregar valor a la producción de yuca (Manihot esculenta) y tecnologías modernas de procesamiento para este cultivo, lo cual les permitirá fortalecer la industria, promover la diversificación de mercados y mejorar...
Barbados - Colombia - Costa Rica - El Salvador - Grenada - Guatemala - Guyana - Honduras - Jamaica - Nicaragua - Panama - Suriname
2015 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Blog article
Small Farmers can expect the Caribbean farmers network to assist in marketing their produce in addition to forming links across the region
Farmers will be assisted in marketing selected produce and creating links in the region, with the establishment of the Caribbean farmer’s network (CAFAN). Chief Coordinator, Jethro Greene says it was recognized that everyone cannot get involved from the inception; so CAFAN will work with those who are willing to get...
Antigua and Barbuda - Bahamas - Barbados - Belize - Dominica - Grenada - Guyana - Jamaica - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Suriname - Trinidad and Tobago
2015 - Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN)
Blog article
CaFAN Regional Value Chain Alliance Project
The Caribbean Farmers Network has signed on June 20, 2015, a cost-sharing contract for a project titled, "Sustainable, profitable value chains, and market linkages in the Caribbean" with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA). CaFAN and CTA have been long standing partners since the inception of CaFAN in...
Antigua and Barbuda - Bahamas - Barbados - Belize - Dominica - Grenada - Guyana - Jamaica - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Suriname - Trinidad and Tobago
2015 - Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN)
Newsletter article
Small farmers to benefit from caribbean linkages
Small-scale farmers in the Caribbean, including Jamaica, are to benefit from a project geared at building marketing linkages across the region.
The project, dubbed 'Sustainable, profitable value chain and market linkages in the Caribbean', is being spearheaded by Sandals Foundation, Caribbean Farmers Network Inc (CaFAN) and the Technical Centre for Agriculture...
Antigua and Barbuda - Barbados - Grenada - Jamaica - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
2015 - The Gleaner
Book
Youth and agriculture
Key challenges and concrete solutions
This publication provides real life examples on how to re-engage youth in agriculture. It shows how tailor-made educational programmes can provide rural youth with the skills and insights needed to engage in farming and adopt environmentally friendly production methods. Many of the initiatives and approaches reported in this study originate...
Bahamas - Bangladesh - Brazil - Burkina Faso - Cambodia - Canada - China - Colombia - Ethiopia - France - Ghana - Grenada - Kenya - Madagascar - Mexico - Pakistan - Philippines - Republic of Moldova - Rwanda - Togo - Uganda - United States of America - Zambia
2014
Website
Family Farming website
The website about family farmers and their farms, begun in 2014 to show the diversity of family farmers ‘Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth‘ by a collection of first hand experiences (snapshots) as an educational resource for anywhere in the world. The concept of this comes from the International...
Afghanistan - Albania - Algeria - American Samoa - Andorra - Angola - Anguilla - Antarctica - Antigua and Barbuda - Argentina - Armenia - Aruba - Australia - Austria - Azerbaijan - Bahamas - Bahrain - Bangladesh - Barbados - Belarus - Belgium - Belize - Benin - Bermuda - Bhutan - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Botswana - Bouvet Island - Brazil - British Virgin Islands - Brunei Darussalam - Bulgaria - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cabo Verde - Cambodia - Cameroon - Canada - Cayman Islands - Central African Republic - Chad - Channel Islands - Chile - China - China, Hong Kong SAR - China, Macao SAR - Christmas Island - Cocos (Keeling) Islands - Colombia - Comoros - Congo - Cook Islands - Costa Rica - Croatia - Cuba - Curaçao - Cyprus - Czechia - Côte d'Ivoire - Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Denmark - Djibouti - Dominica - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - Egypt - El Salvador - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Estonia - Ethiopia - Faroe Islands - Fiji - Finland - France - French Guiana - French Polynesia - French Southern Territories - Gabon - Gambia - Georgia - Germany - Ghana - Gibraltar - Greece - Greenland - Grenada - Guadeloupe - Guam - Guatemala - Guernsey - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Guyana - Haiti - Heard Island and McDonald Islands - Holy See
2014 - Family farms.enviroed4all
Case study
Developing sustainable, green and inclusive agricultural value chains in the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands
This paper summarises and integrates two reports on agricultural commodity chains prepared in early 2013 as part of a study of ACP value chains. The reports were funded by FAO and commissioned by the ACP/EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA).
The two original reports cover a total of...
Belize - Fiji - Grenada - Haiti - Jamaica - Solomon Islands - Vanuatu
2014 - Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
Report
Annual Report of the Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN) 2013
The Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN) presently represents over 500,000 small farmers spread across fifteen Caribbean countries; Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts/ Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago.
CaFAN member farmers organisations are directly involved in...
Antigua and Barbuda - Bahamas - Barbados - Belize - Dominica - Grenada - Guyana - Haiti - Jamaica - Montserrat - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Suriname - Trinidad and Tobago
2013 - Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN)
Newsletter
AGRIVYBZ, Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN) Newsletter #15
This issue (June, 2013), contains:
CaFAN holds Multi-stakeholders National Consultations
Training Young People on Youth Policies
Memorandum of Understanding signed
CTA conducts Impact Study
Buyer Grower Forums, stories from Jamaica and Saint Lucia
CaFAN members kick-start PROPEL
CaFAN Hosts Interns
Upcoming Events
Barbados - Belize - Dominica - Grenada - Guyana - Jamaica - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Suriname - Trinidad and Tobago
2013 - Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN)
Report
Land law and agricultural production in the Eastern Caribbean
A regional overview of issues and options
The report highlights commonalties and differences among prevalent land tenure, land use and land administration problems and practices affecting agriculture in the OECS, as well as policy and legislative responses to those problems. Recommendations for amending, updating or harmonizing existing national laws, as appropriate, are also proposed. A key message...
Antigua and Barbuda - Dominica - Grenada - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Conference proceedings
Regional policy forum on youth and rural modernization
The Forum was divided into five segments and took the form of panel discussions. The four main panels were:
Youth Business Development in the Caribbean; Valorizing youth and rural resources through enterprise development.
Leadership and Advocacy; Building capacities for policy development, succession planning and sustainability.
Agriculture in schools; Broadening the scope and possibilities...
Antigua and Barbuda - Bahamas - Barbados - Belize - Dominica - Grenada - Guyana - Jamaica - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Suriname
2012 - The Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN)
Conference proceedings
Regional value chain training workshop
The objective of the workshop was to improve the understanding of value chain frameworks, mechanisms and tools to be used in the development and implementation of projects within the regional network of CaFAN. Specifically, CaFAN aimed to build capacity among farmer leaders in upgrading and managing commodity value chains, which...
Antigua and Barbuda - Bahamas - Barbados - Belize - Dominica - Grenada - Guyana - Jamaica - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Suriname - Trinidad and Tobago
2011
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