Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

Kingston, Jamaica

May 5, 2026

With the mission of increasing productivity and improving the income of family farmers in the Caribbean, the World Bank launched the AgriConnect initiative in Jamaica, with support from IICA

Worldwide, the initiative aims to support up to 300 million smallholder farmers by 2030, promoting the transition from subsistence models to more productive agricultural enterprises.

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Burma, Guyana

March 26, 2026

New Zealand–Funded ADOPT Caribbean Project Launched in Guyana to Drive Climate-Smart Agriculture Across the Caribbean

The initiative will establish demonstration plots in each participating country, generate baseline soil data for key agricultural systems, and build the capacity of farmers, technicians, and institutions to monitor and manage agricultural emissions more effectively.

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San José, Costa Rica

March 24, 2025

Dorienne Rowan Campbell, a Jamaican coffee grower who teaches and trains other small Caribbean farmers, recognized by IICA as a Leader of Rurality of the Americas

In 2001, Rowan Campbell was one of the founders of the Jamaica Organic Agriculture Movement (JOAM), where she served for several years as president of an organization dedicated to making organic farming economically viable by paving the way for certification, training inspectors, and establishing demonstration farms.

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IICA Jamaica Representative, Dr. Elizabeth Johnson

Kingston, Jamaica

June 7, 2021

IICA Jamaica World Food Safety Day message 2021

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Dominica & Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

September 6, 2018

IICA strengthens the coffee sector in Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

 

Training was based on successful experiences of Costa Rica and Jamaica

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Kingston, Jamaica

June 9, 2017

​Innovations for sustainable production seek to propel the beekeepers sector

Agricultural authorities expressed their satisfaction with the Institute’s support, especially with its focus on supporting the Ministry, youth entrepreneurship and resource mobilization.

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Regional

May 4, 2016

Vacancy Announcement-International Specialist in Agribusiness and Value Chain

Competitiveness and Sustainability of Agricultural Chains with focus on the Caribbean region and based in Trinidad & Tobago 

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Jamaica

November 19, 2015

Preparing Jamaican exporters to meet the US Food Safety Modernisation Act

Approximately 80 persons from the public and private sector in Jamaica attended two day FSMA workshop 

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Jamaica

November 19, 2015

Strengthening Agricultural Health and Food Safety

10th EDF SPS Project provides capacity building training for stakeholders in Jamaica's Agricultural Health and Food Safety Sector.

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