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ARC/22/5 - معلومات محدثة عن وضع استراتيجية منظمة الأغذية والزراعة الجديدة الخاصّة بتغريُّ المناخ














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    Building Effective Public-Private Partnerships to Drive Sustainable, Alternative, Non-Traditional Value Chains - TCP/JAM/3703 2022
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    Despite latent domestic and international market potential for a number of Jamaican agricultural products, many agricultural value chains in the country are characterized by weak connectivity among actors, fragmented coordination, and insufficient resources and technical support to farmers In addition, the lack of professional farmers organizations and limited capacity of many smallholder farmers to be able to deliver consistent quality and quantity of produce required by buyers has also held back the development of high potential subsectors These persistent issues in priority subsectors act as disincentives for private financing along key value chains Private investments are essential to promote and drive competitive industries in a range of fresh and value added Jamaican agricultural products Against this background, the MoAF 1 which is at the centre of promoting the development of competitiveness in the agricultural sector, required support to strengthen the skills and hands on experience of staff to implement systematic and market oriented sector development plans Therefore, in collaboration with the MoAF the project aimed to improve the capacity of key stakeholders to better meet current market requirements, increase delivery, and/or develop new market opportunities or products as well as to facilitate the establishment of new public private partnerships ( that would link lead firms with smallholder farmers, to promote agricultural development.