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St.  Vincent & the Grenadines (SVG) is an Anglo-Caribbean country in the British West Indies region of the Lesser Antilles island arc, in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lies in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean. The sovereign state is also frequently known simply as Saint Vincent. Its 389 km2 (150 sq mi) territory […]

“For the third consecutive year, the number of those chronically hungry has increased in Latin America and the Caribbean, while 250 million – 60 percent of the regional population – are obese or overweight, representing the biggest  threat to nutritional health, said the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday.”  UN article dated 7th

CARIBBEAN IS  PART OF THE SIX REGION OF AFRICAN UNION  This was emphasized by GHANA PRESIDENT  DURING HIS VISITS ST. VINCENT & THE GRENADINES The Ghanaian president H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo visits Caribbean countries including Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica and St.Vincent & the Grenadines. The West African leader visited St.Vincent &

New EU organic rules: how to avoid negative impacts on small farmers in the Caribbean? Message from Fair Trade Advocacy Office [pdf-embedder url=”https://ectadcaribbean.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/New-EU-organic-rules-impact-on-Caribbean-small-farmers.pdf” title=”New EU organic rules – impact on Caribbean small farmers”]  

St. Vincent and GRENADINES (SVG) has been the pilot for the initiative configuring the product mix, packaging and marketing; market penetration and shipping arrangements. [pdf-embedder url=”https://ectadcaribbean.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/OECS-Agriculture-1.pdf” title=”OECS Agriculture (1)”]

Our partner GFAR  champions FARMERS’ RIGHTS TO GENETIC RESOURCES, read the information in the links provided below to learn more about GFAR’s work:  Just released: Farmers’ Right to Seed – Experiences from Guatemala https://blog.gfar.net/2018/02/23/just-released-farmers-right-to-seed-experiences-from-guatemala/ GFAR champions farmers’ rights to seed and genetic resources in new video https://blog.gfar.net/2017/12/12/gfar-champions-farmers-rights-to-seed-and-natural-resources-in-new-video/  Webinar Wrap-up: Farmers’ Rights: Achieving Complementarity between the Informal and Formal