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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
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Week Sept. 20 - 26, 2010Events directly and indirectly related to agricultural development
September NB:
Some more info for you! Mon 20 Seminar on
Accompanying;
Measures for
ACP Sugar
Protocol
Countries
20 – 21 Sept. 2010
Barbados
The sugar protocol has long incorporated preferential trade arrangements with the EU
for certain African, Pacific and Caribbean countries, namely Barbados, Belize, Guyana,
Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Suriname and Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago. Reforms of
the sugar regime have improved access to the European Market for more developing
countries. With the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) access to the EU market has
been further opened up. The EPAs also marked the end of the long standing sugar
protocol. While some Caribbean countries have terminated their export sugar
industries, others, like Barbados, Belize and Guyana have implemented adjustment
strategies to diversify and enhance competitiveness. The new EU rules pose major
challenges not only to industry adjustment, but on the social fabric of sugar-dependent
communities and economies. As a result, the EU will be providing aid worth €1.25 billion
(2006-13), in addition to EDF aid, to support the adjustment process and accompanying
measures to encourage adaptation and restructuring in the Caribbean sugar caneindustries. It is expected that the seminar seeks to enhance understanding of these
measures, including the EU country development strategy.
Tues 21 World Food Day
Agri-Business
Seminar
21 Sept 2010
Trinidad
The Ministry of Food Production, Land and Marine Affairs and The World Food Day
National Committee invites you to : World Food Day: Agri-Business Seminar – Building
Wealth: Managing Finance and Business Risks on Tuesday 21st September 2010, at the
Graduation Pavilion, University of Trinidad and Tobago O’Meara Campus, Arima, from
8:30am to 2:00pm. Participants will benefit from sessions in the following:- (1) knowing
the true cost of borrowing, (2) crop selection and scheduling; (3) selecting market
options to reduce risks and (4) tracking and recording expenditure and income.
Interested person can obtain further information by contacting 646-2737/8.
Regional
Stakeholders
Consultation to
reduce Praedial
Larceny in
Member States
of Caricom
21 – 22 Sept. 2010
St. Lucia
The Technical Management Advisory Committee (TMAC) of the ‘Deficient and
Uncoordinated Disaster Risk Management Including Praedial Larceny’ in the Agriculture
Sector of the Jagdeo Initiative is collaborating with the CARICOM Secretariat, the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Caribbean Disaster
Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) to hold a Regional Stakeholders
Consultation to Consider Draft Recommendations and a Plan of Action to Reduce
Praedial Larceny in Member States of CARICOM at the Bay Gardens Hotel, in St. Lucia.
Wed 22
Thurs 23
Fri 24
Sat 25
Sun 26Also in the month of September:
Regional Policy for Food and Nutrition Security (RPFNS) Validation Workshop (CARICOM Secretariat Guyana)
Regional Workshop: “Building Capacity to Support Competitive Agribusiness Development in the Caribbean” NOTICE FOR A CONTEST FOR RURAL INNOVATIVE PROJECTS
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 [email protected] and or [email protected]
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 inany 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 [email protected] 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.
