The Caribbean Group’s aim to cut back meals imported to the Area by 25 p.c by 2025, has acquired a lift from the federal government of New Zealand to the tune of USD1.6M, focusing on girls and youth in agriculture.
CARICOM Secretary-Common, Dr. Carla Barnett, and the brand new Plenipotentiary Consultant of New Zealand to CARICOM, Her Excellency Linda Charlotte Te Puni, signed a Grant Funding Settlement for the challenge on Wednesday, 28 February on the Guyana Marriot in Georgetown, on the margins of the forty sixth Common Assembly of the Convention of CARICOM Heads of Authorities.
The regional meals safety challenge titled: CARICOM BOOST: Girls and Youth in Agriculture is a part of New Zealand’s dedication to additional deepen improvement cooperation with CARICOM and seeks to boost sustainable manufacturing, local weather change resilience and profitability of 47 CARICOM girls and youth farmer teams in ten (10) Member States. It’s anticipated to see using protected constructions and applicable chilly storage unit applied sciences in girls and youth-led agriculture manufacturing. The overall purpose of the challenge is to advertise local weather sensible agriculture via sustainable agriculture manufacturing.
Expressing gratitude on behalf of CARICOM, Secretary-Common Barnett famous that the challenge displays a collaborative strategy that may affect positively on the Area’s meals safety system and profit probably the most susceptible.
New Zealand, in line with the brand new Plenipotentiary Consultant, can present extra assist in areas comparable to meals safety, renewable vitality, transportation and regional connectivity, catastrophe danger discount, administration of sargassum invasive species, and facilitating nearer collaboration between the Group and the Pacific Island Discussion board. Moreover, the Manaaki New Zealand Scholarship Programme gives alternatives for associated information enlargement and abilities improvement for Caribbean nationals.
The grant funding follows a brand new Cooperation settlement between CARICOM and New Zealand, signed in June 2023. It additionally comes within the wake of the latest accreditation of Ambassador Te Puni because the Plenipotentiary Consultant of New Zealand to CARICOM in early February. At the moment, the Ambassador lauded the “beneficial function” CARICOM performs in supporting regional financial improvement and signaled her nation’s “long-term” dedication to the Group.
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