As we enter into an expanded phase of marketing programs, ECTAD is looking for partners, supporters, donors and investors to partner with us in our quest to provide sustained profitable markets for our small farmers. We aim to expand production and marketing of core selected crops in St Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Guyana Jamaica, […]
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 & […]
The COLEACP EU and ECTAD Caribbean signed Memorandum of Understanding this month, aimed at providing technical assistance to the ECTAD Caribbean to support it’s marketing efforts in Europe and overseas. COLEACP would provide technical assistance to strengthen the business model for the high-end market for ECTAD Caribbean and to ensure that it is in a […]
New EU organic rules: how to avoid negative impacts on small farmers in the Caribbean? Message from Fair Trade Advocacy Office
In May 2016, the European Commission (EC) and COLEACP signed a five–year grant contract for the new programme “Fit for Market – Strengthening competitiveness and sustainability of the ACP horticultural sector”. The total budget of FFM is 25 million euros of which 20 million Euros are financed from the European Development Fund and 5 million […]
St. Vincent and GRENADINES (SVG) has been the pilot for the initiative configuring the product mix, packaging and marketing; market penetration and shipping arrangements.
ECTAD-Suriname is part of the public-private Technical Committee for developing a National Standard for honey. We want to make sure that local and imported honey are natural 100% honey. Also honey from Suriname is in the interest line to export. There is demand for example in Holland. We will use the CROSQ document and target […]
