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ProjectEnhancing the Capacities of Farmers’ Organizations in the Caribbean through Collective Action, Innovation and Investment - GCP/RLA/230/IFA 2025
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No results found.Farmers’ organizations (FOs) are key to rural development, offering services such as market access, technical assistance, financial tool and advocacy. In the Caribbean, these organizations play a crucial role in supporting family farmers who make a large portion of agricultural. However, FOs face challenges in serving members effectively and integrating into value chains. Internal inefficiencies limit business opportunities and livelihoods, hindering their potential to drive sustainable food system transformation. In response, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) implemented the Farmers’ Organizations for Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (FO4ACP) programme in the Caribbean region to strengthen FOs and improve their capacity to access markets and financing, participate in policy dialogue and adopt modern technologies and innovative production practices. In collaboration with Corporación Procasur, and support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the European Union and the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACP), the programme was implemented across five countries (Belize, Guyana, Grenada, Jamaica and Saint Lucia), benefiting additional countries through regional events. By expanding FOs’ access to resources, services, markets and policy spaces, the programme aimed to enhance the role of these organizations as drivers of inclusive rural development across the region. -
ProjectHome Grown School Feeding Program; Productive Innovations in Jamaica for Achieving the SDG/Agenda 2030 - TCP/JAM/3702 2022
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No results found.In Jamaica, malnutrition is an ongoing serious health problem, 200 000 people 2016 2018 are undernourished, stunting is present in 6 percent of children under five years of age 2012 while around 30 percent of children aged between 5 19 years are overweight 2016 Political commitment, in the form of investments and public policies, has proved to be one of the key elements in reducing food insecurity indicators in the country over the last two decades In this regard, one of the most successful policies in terms of improving nutrition status of children and youth has been the School Feeding Programmes ( However, the Government of Jamaica recognized the need to introduce new elements in its SFP, to enable local family farmers to benefit from the income opportunities created, among other things. -
ProjectAfrican Swine Fever Emergency Preparedness in Latin America and The Caribbean - TCP/RLA/3729 2022
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African swine fever ( is a viral disease with potentially serious implications for global trade and food safety The virus remains active for long periods of time in infected blood, faeces and tissues, and there is currently no vaccine, which makes it difficult to contain the disease and impossible to control it The disease has a major impact on countries, regions and subregions generating the following i job losses ;;( loss of export markets ;;( animal mortality ;;( resource scarcity among low income populations ;;( loss of animal protein sources and ( reduction of vulnerable families’ economic capacity In the Americas there are two modalities of pig production rural and industrial Rural production is carried out by smallholder farmers, who use low level technologies and keep small numbers of animals that transform grass, local crops and household waste into animal protein This is based mainly on domestic animal husbandry, with few animals on each farm, but spread over large geographical areas In these farms, the lack of veterinary care, health control, identification and traceability poses a major risk for the introduction of ASF In contrast, industrial pig production employs specialized technologies with large numbers of animals, veterinary assistance and a well organized slaughter and marketing chain An ASF outbreak would have a devastating impact on the livelihoods of rural inhabitants who raise pigs as a source of additional income Moreover, the costs of control measures, including the culling of infected stock and disinfection of infrastructure and fomites, will diminish resilience in the affected areas After an absence of more than 40 years from Latin America and the Caribbean, the fact that ASF has appeared in the region demonstrates the need for a project to provide tools and tasks to the Official Veterinary Services ( In collaboration with the World Organization for Animal Health ( FAO has created the Standing Group of Experts of the Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF TADs) for the Americas.
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