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

AA ggrr iiccuu lltt uu rr ee AA ggeenn dd aa Week June 14 - 19, 2010Events directly and indirectly related to agricultural development

June NB:Some more for your information!

Mon 14 Preparatory Meeting of theCouncil for Trade and Economic

Development (COTED)14 15 June 2010, Guyana

D ue to the restricted nature of these meetings, Agenda details are not available for circulation at this time. D etails of this meeting can be obtained directly from the

CARICOM Secretariat.

Tues 15 Methodology for the Evaluationof the Economic Impact of aDisaster/Health Event15 18 June 2010, Trinidad

P AHO/WHO will be training regional health sector professionals in economic impact assessment of a disaster or health event. The agenda includes issues related to therelevance of such economic impact assessments for the Health sector, the concept of vulnerability and Climate Change and the situation of the Caribbean, assessment methodologies and the issue of health in disaster risk management ( D RM). It will provide health professionals with a better understanding of how they may becomeinvolved in undertaking damage and loss assessments with regards to pandemic,e.g. H1N1. D RM is usually undertaken sector by sector. While the training is not directly related to agriculture, a presentation by IICA will provide health professionals with an insight on how a disaster or health event, such as a pandemic,can impact on the sector. While the pandemic is not likely to damage agriculturecrops, the impact will be felt, for example, in terms of loss of work hours of field labour due to illness and a depressed demand from consumers too ill to purchaseagricultural products.

W ed 16 Caribbean Regional Symposiumon Disaster Risk Management16 19 June 2010,Antigua

The Minister of Agriculture of Antigua, IICA, CARICOM, FAO, World Bank and C DE MA, among others, are collaborating to host this timely regional symposium.The symposium, which relates directly to the Jadgeo Initiative s Key BindingConstraint of D eficient and uncoordinated risk management measures will contribute to building technical capacity of producers, public and private personnel and policy technicians in planning, developing and managing disasters, includingthe development and management of Caribbean agricultural insurance schemes.Specifically, it seeks to: (1) strengthen the capacity of policy makers and technicians,development bankers, private insurance technicians and producers in the planning,innovation, development and management of a sustainable agricultural insurancescheme for the Caribbean region; (2) bring key stakeholders in the sector together to evaluate the challenges faced (e.g. policy, legislative, information,infrastructural), and the opportunities available (management tools, includinginsurance) for addressing the risks and, (3) determine the main tenets of anoverarching agricultural sector risk management strategy for the Caribbean with a focus on Agricultural Insurance.

Th urs 17 3 0th Meeting of the Council for

Trade and EconomicDevelopment (COTED)17 18 June 2010, Guyana

D ue to the restricted nature of these meetings, Agenda details are not available at this time, and can be obtained directly from the CARICOM Secretariat.

F ri 18 Sugar and Energy FestivalGilbert Park, Couva

18 20 June 2010,Trinidad

The festival is hosted by the Couva/ P oint Lisas Chamber of Commerce and will for the first time introduce an agriculture segment to assist farmers in the transition

from sugar to agriculture, focusing on the contribution of sugar to this country over the last century, and on how farmers can move on without sugar. Sugar hasbeen our history for more than a 100 years and we cannot just forget or bypass it.We have to remember where we came from, and know where we are going, that swhy we have chosen the theme Then and Now . So says Mr. Nal Ramsingh,P resident of the Chamber. The segment is geared specifically to assist former Caroni workers who have received lands. They would receive information to assist them in the change-over from sugar to agriculture, through agricultural seminarsand workshops.

50 th Meeting of the OECSAuthority Signing Ceremony18 June 2010St Lucia

This historic event resulted from a decision taken by Members of the O E CS Authority at the 50 th Meeting of the O E CS Authority in Anguilla in November 2009 to proceed with the final signing of the Treaty, which will take the O E CS to an E conomic Union.The new Treaty arrangement replaces the Treaty of Basseterre which established

the O E CS. The provisions of the E conomic Union Treaty are expected to include:- 1.Free Circulation of goods and trade in services within the O E CS; 2. Free movement of labour; 3.Free movement of Capital; 4. A regional Assembly of P arliamentariansand 5. A common external tariff.

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Also coming later in June is a Training the Trainers workshop for members of the Caribbran Network of Rural Women Producers (CANROP) inSt. Lucia The full June and other monthly calendars can be viewed on www.carapn.net .Please send information about your events to keep all stakeholders informed and updated on time to Diana.Francis@iica.int