NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC-The Caribbean Farmer of the Yr might be introduced on Tuesday on the opening of the annual Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) within the Bahamas this week – October ninth – thirteenth.
The week of actions begins on Monday and is being held beneath the theme “Accelerating Imaginative and prescient 20 by 2025” and can embody seminars, expositions, and a Commerce Present.
The CWA supplies a discussion board for the important thing decision-makers in the private and non-private sectors throughout the Area to spotlight the significance of agriculture and rural life to the financial, social, and environmental stability of Member States.
It additionally permits the numerous stakeholders in agriculture and associated sectors to forge a shared imaginative and prescient for growing agriculture and enhancing rural life.
This might be the seventeenth CWA. The primary was held in Trinidad and Tobago in 1999.
The Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) was conceptualized by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) as a facility to position agriculture and rural life on the “entrance burner” of regional integration actions.
The targets for the week–extended exercise have been to present vital decision-makers in the private and non-private sectors entry to higher acknowledge the significance of agriculture and rural life to the financial, social, and environmental stability of the Area and for main stakeholders in agriculture and associated sectors to have a chance to dialogue and forge a shared imaginative and prescient for the repositioning of agriculture and the enhancement of rural life.
The CWA is the premier occasion on the Agriculture calendar within the Caribbean Area. It’s convened beneath the Alliance for Sustainable Improvement of Agriculture and the Rural Milieu (‘The Alliance’). From the inaugural assembly in 1998, the 2 central collaborating companies have been IICA and the Caribbean Group (CARICOM) Secretariat.
In 2002, the Meals and Agriculture Group (FAO) and the Caribbean Agricultural Analysis and Improvement Institute (CARDI) joined IICA and CARICOM to ascertain a core group that features because the Secretariat of The Alliance. Since then, the 4 companies have collaborated on the administration and logistics crucial for the convening and servicing of conferences of The Alliance and the myriad of actions through the CWA.
In 2003, the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) grew to become a big associate and sponsor of the CWA actions.
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