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Building Climate Resilient Agriculture in Caribbean Countries: Suriname
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2023)
Agriculture is a significant sector in Suriname, employing 17% of the population, but faces challenges such as low productivity, inadequate technology, and limited irrigation. The country has prioritized climate resilient ...
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: 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. ...
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 ...
National Action plan for Agriculture GHG Inventory Improvement Haiti
(Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), 2023)
The CARICOM AgREADY project, funded by the Green Climate Fund, aims to position Caribbean agriculture as part of the solution for addressing climate change. The project targets nine countries to improve policies, capacities, ...
National Action plan for Agriculture GHG Inventory Improvement: St. Vincent & The Grenadines
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2023)
The GCF-Readiness Project “Strengthening the foundation for a climate responsive agricultural sector in the Caribbean” aims to promote Caribbean agriculture as a low-emissions solution to climate change. The project has ...