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A review of the macro-economic policy environment of the OECS: 1980-1995
(IICA, 1997)
This paper examines the objectives and instruments of macroeconomic policy and highlights important developments and policy changes over the period 1980-1995 in policy formulation and implementation for the five member ...
Managing hazards, reducing risks and increasing investments in agriculture -some perspectives : critical analysis of policy issues for repositioning agriculture in the Caribbean
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2007)
This special paper seeks to widen understanding and promote a new mindset with respect to three issues critical to the agriculture development process: 1) Natural hazards and disaster mangement in agriculture in the ...
Farming Change, growing more food with a changing resource base: critical, issues, perspectives and options
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)Caribbean Regional Agricultural Policy Network (CaRAPN), 2012)
This publication seeks to provoke thought on the question of whether farming in the Caribbean will be able to take advantage of climate change and the changing natural environment to provide sustainable environmental, ...
A post harvest handling system for cassava (Manihot esculenta, Crantz)
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1989)
The cassava root, like the other root and tuber crops, has been traditionally treated as a hardy crop with little attention being paid to proper harvesting and post harvest handling procedures. These reasons have accounted ...
Current food and domestic demand situation in the countries of the Lesser Antilles
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1997)
This document explains an overview of the agricultural trade balance of the ten countries to Caribe. Included fresh fruits, food crops, commodities designated as exotics: mandarins, tangerines, and limes, vegetables, ...
The consultancy in Suriname for diseases in oil palms and coconuts
(IICA, 1987)
The Bud Rot/Little Leaf disease of the oil palm, Elaeis guineensis, is shown to be caused by a bacterium of the genus Erwinia, similar to E,. lathyri. (Manns and Taubenhaus) Holland. The bacterium is only capable of attacking ...
Survey on pineapple pests and diseases in the lesser Antilles: final report
(IICA, 03-1995)
This survey was aimed at identifying, for each country visited (Trinidad, Santa Lucia, San Vicente, Grenada, Barbados, Antigua, San Kitts and Dominica), the main pests and diseases in local pineapple fields.
Trinidad and Tobago. Annual report 2007
(IICA, 2008)
The IICA Office in Trinidad and Tobago is guided by an annual work programme, which
is set within and in response to the wider hemispheric and regional and national mandates of the Agro Plan 2003-2015, the Jagdeo Initiative ...
workshop training manual on the annual planning process
(IICA, 1994)
The document explains that the activities presented in this manual have been prepared so as to enable workshop participants to grasp a more indepth understanding of the Annual Planning Methodology as a mechanism for improving ...
In a nutshell. Practicing Good Agriculture ... the vital link ... in the food safety chain
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2003)
This issues provides information on good agricultural practices (GAP) for fresh fruit and vegetable production in an attempt to enhance knowledge, improve farming techniques and contribute to the overall goal of producing ...