• Improving crop and livestock germplasm: What, why, how & what next? 

      Agriculture Policy Programme (APP); European Development Found (EDF) (2016)
      This Brief has been completed based on APP actions to date, including studies on the harmonization of protocols for movement of plant and animal germplasm across the Caribbean Region, the experiences of Regional technicians ...
    • Mainstreaming climate change and disaster risk management in agricultural policy and planning 

      European Development Fund (EDF); Agriculture Policy Programme (APP) (2016)
      This feature highlights the current vulnerability of the Caribbean agriculture sector to natural hazard impacts, the enhanced effect of climate change, the need to build DRM and CCA into agricultural planning, and the ...
    • Manual de cultivos protegidos: Una estrategia de resiliencia ante el cambio climático 

      Trabuco, Mirian Beatriz; Guillén, Óscar; Bozzano, Gregorio; Zarza, Hugo; Perrier, Jean Pierre; Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA); Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (Paraguay) (2016)
      Esta publicación, se enmarca en el Proyecto Insignia Resiliencia, Componente 4. Uso eficiente de agua y manejo sostenible de suelo para una agricultura resiliente al cambio climático, a través del cual se busca fortalecer ...
    • Changing climate, changing farming systems 

      Agriculture Policy Programme (APP); European Development Fund (EDF) (2016)
      This feature highlights the already known causes and potential impacts of climate change, as well as the options for response in the Caribbean farming community. It also highlights initiatives that are being carried out ...
    • 96° in the shade: Cooling things down in protected agriculture structures 

      European Development Fund (EDF); Agriculture Policy Programme (APP) (2016)
      This feature provides an overview of Protected Agriculture (PA) structures as an important thrust to tackle increased food production in the Caribbean in a new climate reality. It provides background on the challenges ...