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SANREM CRSP
USAID
Sustainable Agriculture
and Natural Resource
Management (SANREM)
Collaborative Research
Support Program
(CRSP)
Office of International
Research, Education
and Development
(OIRED) at Virginia Tech
SANREM CRSP Planning Award Application
Lead Institution:
Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, University of Florida
Title: Caribbean Food Systems Vulnerability to Global
Environmental Change
PI: James W. Jones, Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Department, University of Florida. CO-PIs: Walter Baethgen, Director,
Latin America/Caribbean Program, International Research Institute for
Climate Prediction, Columbia University; Mike Brklacich, Professor,
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton
University, John Ingram, Director, GECAFS International Project Office;
Arvin R. Mosier, Visiting Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Department, University of Florida; Ranjit Singh, Head of Department of
Economics and Extension, The University of the West Indies; Sergio
Sepulveda, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA);
Adrian Trotman, The Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology
Objectives and Approach for a 4-year SANREM
CRSP Project.
The thrust of the research for the SANREM Project
(GECAFS Caribbean Phase II) will characterise the food
systems for three case study countries (Guyana, Haiti, and
Jamaica), and deliver an assessment of GEC and
socioeconomic stresses on these case-study Caribbean
food systems.
Objectives and Approach for a 4-year SANREM CRSP
Project. (Continued)
The characterization and assessment will explore
gender specific issues related to each phase of
each food system. These products will underpin
the development of a prototype decision support
system (DSS) that will be designed to link GEC
and national and regional food systems.
To implement these objectives we will first enlist the aid of
the country-based USAID Mission offices to locate partners
and use GECAFS relations within CARICOM, CARDI, UWI,
CIMH, IICA and IFRPI . Working with these partners, we will
develop a project to:
• identify key food systems and their vulnerabilities,
•develop different scenarios as to the effect of GEC on the
Caribbean single market approach and economy,
•adapt the University of Florida climate risk DSS (Jones et al.
1998; SEC, 2005) to key food systems,
•and integrate the food production DSS with socioeconomic
factors to permit use of DSS to make decisions on adaptation
of food systems.
We expect to use this program for training
systems scientists by engaging graduate
students, emphasis will be placed on recruiting
female students, from each country in DSS
development, and additional students who will
direct their efforts into scenarios development
and integrating production DSS with
socioeconomic development.
Research will be closely coordinated on a regional basis and
tied to the international GECAFS project within the overall
GECAFS conceptual framework.
Conditions
&
Scenarios
Vulnerability
& Impacts
Current
Food Systems
Feedbacks
Decision
Support
Adaptation
Adapted
Food Systems
GECAFS DSS/Caribbean Workshop
National Academy of Science, Washington DC
Wednesday 18 & Thursday 19 May 2005
The overall goals for the Workshop were to:
1. Review GECAFS Decision Support System Project
Progress
2. Review GECAFS Caribbean Project Progress in Context
of DSS Development
3. Begin work on USAID SANREM CRSP Proposal for the
Caribbean Region
One of the main goals of the 1st Workshop was to
identify partnerships that were needed to develop a
viable project:
At the workshop were representatives from
Caribbean Regional Organizations: CARICOM,
CIMH, CIAT, Cropper Foundation, and IICA
GECAFS/SANREM Caribbean Regional
Partners
CARDI—Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development
Institute
CARICOM—Caribbean Community
CCCC—CARICOM Climate Change Centre
CIAT—International Center for Tropical Agriculture
CIMH—Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology
Cropper Foundation
CRFM—Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism
IICA—Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
UWI—The University of the West Indes
GECAFS/SANREM Country Partner
Guyana
USAID Mission: Winston Harlequin/ Dhanmattie Sohai
National Agricultural Research Institute
University of Guyana
Ministry of Social Services
Ministry to Community Development
IICA
Haiti
USAID Mission: Marc-Eddy Martin
Quisqueya University: Regine Louis
CNSA: Aldrin Calixte
IICA
Jamaica
USAID Mission: Diane Dormer/Karen McDonald Gayle
Jamaican Ministry of Agriculture: Richard Harrison/Joseph Lindsay
IICA
Agenda for GECAFS/ SANREM CRSP Caribbean
Project Planning Workshop
CARICOM Headquarters, Georgetown, Guyana
June 16-17
Objectives:
1. Finalize country-based focus of research needs
2. Continue proposal development
3. Agree on work tasks and deadlines
REGIONAL Key Questions
To what extent might the regional initiatives (e.g. CSME. FAO Food
Security, Common Fisheries Policy) provide mechanisms to interact with
impacts of GEC on food security in Jamaica, Guyana and Haiti?
NATIONAL
Jamaica:
To what extent would more profitable rural enterprises (including land &
water based) facilitate the development of robust food systems which can
cope with and adapt to uncertain futures, including GEC?
Haiti:
For hillside food systems, what is the balance amongst adapting crops to
changed climate and/or enhancing infrastructure for agricultural
storage/distribution and/or reforestation on denuded hill slopes that
would best increases food system security, stabilize ecosystems and
decrease poverty?
Guyana:
How can diversification strategies be developed to offer new livelihood
strategies (including youth & women), buffer the deleterious effects of
GEC stresses and minimize environmental degradation?
Improving Caribbean Food Security in
the Face of Environmental Stress
Food Systems/
Vulnerability
Decision
Maker
Mapping
Scenarios
Potential Futures
Decision
Support