the Agriculture Agenda

Week Sept. 27 – Oct 03, 2010

Events directly and indirectly related to agricultural development

September NB: Some more info for you!

Mon 27

Tues 28 Regional Workshop: The aim of this workshop is to improve stakeholder’s capacity and is specifically geared towards
Building Capacity Technical professionals within the Ministries of Agriculture and IICA Country Offices, to support the
to Support development of competitive agribusiness and commodity value chains. Its primary focus is on the
Competitive issues of competitiveness, value-chains and the application of the “Commodity Chain Analysis and
Agribusiness Dialogue for Action” (CADIAC) methodology. The workshop will be facilitated by IICA’s
Development in the Agribusiness Specialists Danilo Herrero and Robert Reid. The Value chain approach is currently one
Caribbean. of the processes under consideration and active promotion in CARICOM countries for enabling
28 – 29 Sept 2010 development in agriculture.
Trinidad
Regional Policy for The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, with the support of the Food and Agriculture
Food and Nutrition Organization (FAO) Project Promoting CARICOM/CARIFORUM Food Security, funded by the
Security (RPFNS) Government of Italy, will hold it’s a regional workshop for the Validation of the Regional Policy for
Validation Food and Nutrition Security in the Caribbean. In February 2007, the Eighteenth Inter-Sessional
Workshop Meeting of the Heads of Government of CARICOM identified “food security and sustainable
(CARICOM development” as one of the main pillars of the Regional Transformation Programme for Agriculture
Secretariat (RTPA). The goal of “an acceptable level of food security that is not easily disrupted by natural and
Guyana) or manmade disasters” was an equally important finding in the consultative process of The Jagdeo
28 – 29 Sept 2010 Initiative - A Proposal for Interventions to Alleviate the Key Binding Constraints to the Agricultural
Trinidad Sector in CARICOM Countries. The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC), which established the
Caribbean Community including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) identifies
“Food and Nutrition Security” (Article 56.1.b) among the goals of the Community Agricultural Policy
(CAP). The Workshop will review the recent draft RPFNS, discuss the issues and agree on the nature
and scope of policy actions proposed to be taken at national and regional levels in order to
address the negative factors constraining the attainment of food and nutrition security. The
expected results of the workshop will be: 1)Validation of the contents of the draft policy
document: identifying gaps, omissions and flaws in the draft document, and amendments to be
made; 2) Agreement on relationships and linkages between the RPFNS, the CAP, the Common
Fisheries Policy, the Caribbean Cooperation in Health (CCH) and other relevant CARICOM policies;
3) Agreement on key policy actions and programmes (and their order of priority) to move the
region towards improved and sustainable food security within the next 5 years.
Wed 29
Thurs 30

October
Fri 01

Sat 02

Sun 03

Also in the month of October:

IICA Executive Committee Meeting; 2nd International Project Steering Committee Meeting; Caribbean Week of Agriculture;
3rd Annual Permaculture Design Course

Details provided in the respective Week Agriculture Agenda and in the full monthly calendars which can be viewed on www.carapn.net.
Please keep sharing information about your events to help us keep all stakeholders informed and updated on time. Send your information to
Diana.Francis@iica.int and or admin@carapn.net

ANNOUNCEMENT REMINDER:
Please encourage participation in the UNDP’s regional contest for rural innovative projects aimed at the identification of projects
that promote rural enterprise and innovation at the grassroots level with the potential of replication and expansion at the regional
level. The contest will be open to rural groups and associations based in any of the ten (10) countries covered by CARUTA (the
OECS, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago). Great emphasis will be given to the support of rural youth and
women initiatives. It is anticipated that the competition will take place twice a year. The theme of the first competition will be
Microenterprise Development, Income Generating Activity & Innovation, focusing on Youth Rural enterprises, Micro-credit and
Innovation and Transformation of Agriculture.

The contest is open to all types of organized or registered groups. (e.g. community based organizations, cooperatives,
associations, etc.) that are implementing projects which address any of the above focal areas. An application form can be
downloaded from the project website at http://www.bb.undp.org/innovative-projects or it can be requested by email from the
CARUTA coordinator at mario.porchetta@undp.org or by mailing a written request quoting this notice to: The Project Coordinator,
CARUTA, UNDP, UN House, Marine Gardens, Hastings, Christ Church, BARBADOS.

THE DEADLINE for submission of projects is 5 November 2010.

a project of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation