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Climate change and disaster risk management: prepare, respond, recover
Addressing the challenges of climate change thorugh disastres risk management will be the focus of a two-day meeting hosted by INTRA-ACP APP, and project funded by the European Union.
Comprehensive Traceability and Food Recall Systems integral to Safe and Competitive Food Systems, says IICA Barbados Head
Efforts are being made to strengthen the capacity of CARIFORUM countries to respond rapidly to food safety events through an action that aims to improve the traceability of food and the recall of food and food products.
Five Caribbean countries seek to improve soil quality by using organic matter to manage soil degradation
With support from IICA, representatives from Jamaica, Haiti, Antigua and Barbuda, Suriname and Guyana received training in sustainable soil management practices and processes for remediating soil degradation.
Safe pesticide management and use being addressed in the Caribbean
Twelve countries from the CARIFORUM Region met at the 21st Meeting of the Coordinating Group of Pesticides Control Boards of the Caribbean (CGPC) in Belize to discuss responsible pest and pesticide management in the Sub-region.
Putting together policy and strategy to work for small and medium agricultural producers
Making policy and planning strategies that are practical, useful and workable was the main objetctive at the Ninth Regional Planners Forum on Agriculture in the Caribbean, currently taking place in Trinidad and Tobago.
CARIFORUM Region one step closer to attaining Model Legislation in Agricultural Health and Food Safety