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Regional overview of food security in Latin America and the Caribbean with a focus on agricultural research, technology transfer and application
(IICA, 1991)
Toward a New Agricultural Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean. As the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) enter the last decade of the 20th century and approach a new millennium, food security ...
Hillside Agriculture Sub-Project (HASP): Wholesale seasonal price variation for the coronation market
(IICA, 12-1994)
This report provides information regarding seasonal price variations at the Coronation market for a number of crops. As such, this study is geared as a farm planning tool for both extensionists and farmers.
Women food producers in Jamaica: assessment and policies
(IICA, 02-1996)
Este estudio pretende sentar las bases sobre las cuales se puedan orientas las políticas y acciones del gobierno para mejorar las condiciones laborales de las mujeres productoras de alimentos y la seguridad alimentaria y ...
Estimated growth in domestic crops area, yield, and production 1969-1988
(01-1991)
5 tablas
A total of 50 crops are considered in this analysis. It explores the performance of the crops produced by the majority of the small farmers, mainly for domestic consumption. Small farmer's land and labour are ...
The development of policies for the development of agrobiotecnologies in IICA member countries
(The coopers & Lybrand Consulting Group, 1991)
This document presents:
-Background and current situation
-Policies and strategies of selected advanced industrialized countries
-Potential opportunities, threats and challenges associated with the development of ...
Proceedings of a workshop on Post Harvest Handling of Horticultural Commodities for Export
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1990)
The document explains that recently, Trinidad and Tobago has experience a high rate of growth in the export of fresh horticultural commodities, with an increase in volume of exports of three hundred percent (300 percent) ...
Regional Conference on Rural Women Food Producers in the Caribbean Kingston: Report
(IICA, 05-1995)
The conference intents to raise consciousness of the conditions and needs of rural women farmers and to convince the authorities, ministers of agriculture, statistical units, planning agencies and the like, to institute ...
Proceedings of the Sustainable Small Farm Milk Production Dairy Development workshop
(IICA, 1993)
The document includes five themes: Dairy development in Jamaica; Caribbean small farm milk production; herd health for sustainable milk production; St. Stanislaus dairy demonstration unit: a farm profile; and, herd management ...
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.
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 ...