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Building Climate Resilient Agriculture in Caribbean Countries: St. Kitts and Nevis
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2023)
St. Kitts & Nevis' agriculture sector represents 1.4% of GDP and consists of small-scale farms. The government owns most of the farm land, with the remainder owned by individuals and families. Subsistence farming is common, ...
Building Climate Resilient Agriculture in Caribbean Countries: The Commonwealth of Dominica
(Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), 2023)
Agriculture is the second-largest sector in Dominica, contributing between 11.5% and 15.2% of the country's GDP from 2010 to 2020. However, several barriers to implementing the country's NDCs have been identified, including ...
Building Climate Resilient Agriculture in Caribbean Countries: St. Vincent and the Grenadines
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2023)
Agriculture is a priority sector for adaptation in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, but no mitigation targets were included in its initial Nationally Determined Contributions (iNDC). The main barrier to implementing climate ...
Building Climate Resilient Agriculture in Caribbean Countries: Saint Lucia
(Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), 2023)
The agriculture sector in Saint Lucia is primarily small-scale and rain-fed, with limited use of modern technology. Agriculture has not been prioritized in Saint Lucia’s NDCs due to challenges such as limited data availability, ...
Building Climate Resilient Agriculture in Caribbean Countries: Trinidad and Tobago
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2023)
Trinidad and Tobago's agriculture sector contributes only 1.2% to the country's GDP, but it employs over 4% of the population and plays a crucial role in diversifying the economy. However, the sector faces challenges in ...
Building Climate Resilient Agriculture in Caribbean Countries: Haiti
(Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), 2023)
Haiti's per capita GDP is the lowest in Latin America and the Caribbean. Climate resilient agriculture (CRA) technologies face barriers to inclusion, such as limited access to credit and inadequate policy framework. ...
COP27 Growing Roles for Agriculture and Food Security
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 06-12-2022)
Agriculture has not had a significant presence in the national and international climate processes. Yet as COP27 ended there was a strong push by many public, private and civil society actors for agriculture to have a ...
Suelos saludables: la base de los sistemas alimentarios sostenibles en América Latina y el Caribe. Un aporte para los debates en las Américas previos a la Cumbre sobre los Sistemas Alimentarios de las Naciones Unidas 2021
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2021)
Se plantean las acciones dirigidas a mejorar la salud del suelo, ofreciendo un mayor retorno de inversión para crear y mantener sistemas agroalimentarios saludables en América Latina y el Caribe. Se plantean los agricultores ...
National Action plan for Agriculture GHG Inventory Improvement: Saint Lucia
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2023)
The AgREADY project aims to position Caribbean agriculture as a low-emission solution for climate change and improve its financing prioritization process. The project intends to develop a climate-responsive agriculture ...
National Action plan for Agriculture GHG Inventory Improvement: St. Kitts & Nevis
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2023)
The Green Climate Fund-CARICOM AgREADY project aims to improve the enabling conditions for enhancing climate action in the agricultural sector. By targeting nine countries, the project's specific objectives include ...