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CARICOM Agriculture Donor Conference
CROWNE PLAZA TRINIDAD, PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 2 June 2007
Overview of the Integrated
Package of Proposals
TRANSFORMING CARICOM AGRICULTURE
Senator the Hon. Dr. John McIntyre
Minister of Agriculture, Dominica
June 2, 2007
Ensuring Food Security and Rural Development in CARICOM
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Content of Presentation
 AGRICULTURE SECTOR CHALLENGES
 STRATEGIC THRUSTS AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES
 OVERVIEW OF PROPOSALS AND PROJECTS
 FINANCING GAPS AND OPTIONS
 CONCLUSIONS
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AGRICULTURE SECTOR CHALLENGES
Many regional agricultural sector policy documents and other
initiatives, including the RTP and the Jagdeo Initiative, have
identified priority constraints as :
• Limited financing and inadequate new investments;
•Deficient and uncoordinated risk management measures;
•Fragmented and unorganised agricultural private sector;
•In-adequate research and technology development;
•Outdated and inefficient agriculture health and food safety systems;
•Inefficient land and water distribution systems;
•Inadequate transportation systems (perishables);
•Weak and inadequate information, weak markets- development,
linkages;
•Lack of skilled human resources.
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STRATEGIC THRUSTS
 Creating an enabling environment
 Enhancing enterprise development and diversification
 Development and transfer of technology
 Food Security and Sustainable Development
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STRATEGIC THRUSTS AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES
 Creating an enabling environment
 Developed and improved physical and social
infrastructure
 Improved policy, institutions and inter-sectoral linkages
 Enhancing enterprise development
 Private and public sector partnerships
 Increased entrepreneurship and innovation
 Development and transfer of technology
 Strengthened Agricultural Health, Food Safety Systems,
Quality and Standards
 Increased use of improved technologies
 Diversification and expansion of the agricultural sector
 Increased markets for value added products
 regional brand products
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Creating an Enabling Environment
OUTCOME 1: DEVELOPED AND IMPROVED INFRASTRUCTURE
 irrigation infrastructure
 sea defence and fish landing type
infrastructure
 feeder roads
 laboratories
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Creating an Enabling Environment
OUTCOME 2: IMPROVED POLICY, INSTITUTIONAL AND
INTER-SECTORAL LINKAGES
• Strengthening national and regional institutions as
efficient service providers
• Establishing clear and transparent policies that
serve as incentives to investment in the rural sector
• Developing synergies between different sectors, for
instance, agriculture and the health sector and
agriculture and the tourism sector
• Facilitating cross border collaboration between
producers, processors and marketing agents
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Enhancing Enterprise Development
OUTCOME 3 : ENHANCED PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS
 Strengthened strategic alliances created between and among
Government, private sector, community and development
organizations :
 Jamaica Agricultural Development Foundation
 Belize Livestock Producers Association
 Arrowroot Industry Association
 Grenada Cooperative Nutmeg Association
 Fostering the development of commodity/enterprise associations
• Legislation - unification and formalizing
• Incentives - training, information
• Market development – negotiations, trade facilitation
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Enhancing enterprise development
OUTCOME 4 : Increased Entrepreneurship and Innovation
 Entrepreneurship training and business center
development
 Credit and risk facilitation for enterprises and
especially partnerships
 Dynamic linkages between suppliers and users of
technology
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Development and Transfer of Technology
OUTCOME 5: STRENGTHENED AGRICULTURAL HEALTH, FOOD SAFETY
SYSTEMS, QUALITY AND STANDARDS
• Meeting domestic and export market requirements
• Upgraded information, processing and laboratory systems.
- Caribbean Invasive Species Surveillance and Information
Program (CISSIP)
- Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety
(CAHFSA)
- Caribbean Regional Organization of Standards and
Quality (CROSQ)
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Development and Transfer of Technology
OUTCOME 6: INCREASED USE OF TECHNOLOGY
• Availability and use of improved technologies is seen as critical
in the increased involvement of youth in agricultural and and
rural area development
• Accessing new national, regional and international markets is
very dependent on the availability of technologies at a scale that
would help Caribbean small farmers address constraints,
increase their efficiency and competitiveness.
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Diversification and Expansion of the Agricultural Sector
OUTCOME 7: INCREASED MARKETS FOR VALUE-ADDED PRODUCTS
• Higher incomes in the region and the increased
consumption of processed products is an expanding
agricultural sector opportunity.
• Reallocation of resources between current and future
agricultural activities is being pushed by the negative
events in the traditional commodity sectors.
• Food crops, spices, fruits and livestock products are
some of the attractive areas.
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Diversification and Expansion of the Agricultural Sector
OUTCOME 8: STRENGTHENED REGIONAL BRAND PRODUCTS
• Agricultural products should be marketed using the Caribbean
brand
 product characteristics
 sustainable development practices
 livelihood systems
• The cross border production and marketing linkages should be
developed to reflect the different comparative advantages
across the region. Some potential products and for which there
are proposals in the package:
 West Indian Sea Island Cotton
 Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee
 Pepper sauce
 A range of exotic Caribbean fruits, herbs and spices
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PROPOSALS AND PROJECTS
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PROPOSALS AND PROJECTS - BACKGROUND
Considerable consensus on the Regional Agricultural
Strategy associated with – Treaty of Chaguaramas,
RTP, OECS Agricultural Strategy, Jagdeo Initiative have
led to:
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Preparation of NMTIPs
• Identification of Investment Gaps
• Preparation of Bankable Investment Project Profiles (BIPPs)
• Preparation of Regional projects based on regional consultations
– on food security, research and technology transfer, trade
negotiations, and enterprise development
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PROPOSALS AND PROJECTS - OVERVIEW
The projects and proposals presented are indicative of
gaps identified. They complement ongoing projects.
Additional projects are under preparation.
• Fifty three (53) projects/proposals are submitted for consideration
of this Conference
• Fourteen (14) regional submissions from - CARDI, CARICOM
Secretariat, CABA, IICA,OECS Secretariat, and UWI
• Thirty-nine (39) national project proposals/ideas/concept notes endorsed by the individual Governments
• Of the 39 national project proposals, 22 are associated with the
regional project proposal “Up-scaled Caribbean Regional Project
for Food Security (CRPFS).
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CHARACTERIZATION OF PROPOSALS / PROJECTS
Investment Proposals/projects submitted are consistent with four
strategic thematic areas:
• enterprise development and trade facilitation which includes
entrepreneurial development and the involvement of youth in
agriculture
• technology development and transfer which includes both
production, processing and distribution technologies for
agriculture, livestock and fisheries
• enabling environment which includes all the various types of
infrastructure; and institutional support services needed
• food security and sustainable development, embracing the food
security issues and the management of the region’s natural
resources
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ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE FACILITATION
This category includes twenty-nine projects/ proposals
addressing:
 Product and market development for
 small ruminants
 coffee, cotton, nutmeg, arrowroot, fruit sector and
 aquaculture
 Agricultural health and food safety at both the regional and
national levels
 Caribbean Invasive Species Surveillance and Information
Programme (CISSIP) initially in five countries
 Acklins & Crooked island project of the Bahamas
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TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFER
This category includes twenty-six projects / proposals
addressing:
 Development, strengthening and transfer of
technology and technological packages for
production and marketing systems
 Specific technology project areas –
greenhouse
livestock breeding
fisheries and aquaculture
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PROPOSALS/PROJECTS RELATED TO: ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
This category includes thirty projects/proposals
addressing:
 infrastructure development or improvement such as:
farm roads, research / laboratory facilities, marketing
/ processing facilities, marine fisheries and
aquaculture facilities and irrigation facilities;
 institutional strengthening and reform of:
Belize Livestock Producers Association, Grenada
Cocoa Association and Grenada Cooperative
Nutmeg Association, Coffee Industry Board of
Jamaica
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FOOD SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
This category includes thirty-one projects/proposals
addressing:
• “Sustainable fisheries development in the Acklins &
Crooked island” project of the Bahamas
• “Food security enhancement for the Rupununi
Savannahs Communities” project of Guyana
• Upscaled Caribbean Regional Food Security Project
• Sustainable development / natural resource
management type projects include
– Marine fisheries/ aquaculture type projects
– Bio-diesel/ agro-energy type projects
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Financing Gaps
 National and regional level resources support a wide
cross-section of agricultural sector development
activities but it leaves a number of critical areas
under-funded
 Current international institution support for the
agricultural sector is very low absolutely and relative
to other areas
 The gap in resources that exists is reflected in the
package of proposals prepared for this Donor
meeting. Current estimates are close to US$250
million
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CONCLUSIONS
 The project/proposals represent a comprehensive investment
package that would diversify the agricultural sector and facilitate
increased integration across CARICOM states, thereby furthering
the goals of the CSME.
 The regional projects are designed wholly to strengthen regional
level services to support activities within and among countries.
 The proposals are market oriented and would assist in transitioning
CARICOM agriculture to achieve levels of competitiveness required
in the global economic environment.
 Currently there is no definitive prioritization across national and
regional projects.
 Achieving the social goals of the region require increase
investments into the agricultural sector. The proposals presented
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are priority areas for the injections of additional resources.