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Agrotourism.green economy2012
1. AGROTOURISM IN THE
GREEN ECONOMY
POLICY CONCERNS & INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CARIBBEAN
Roxanne Waithe
Agrotourism Specialist, IICA Office In Barbados
20TH September 2012
2. Presentation Outline
• Agriculture in the Green Economy
• Agrotourism in the Green Economy
• Status Caribbean Agrotourism – project
initiatives and policy concerns
• Opportunities for Investment
3. There can be no Green Economy
without Green (sustainable)
Agriculture.
4. Agriculture & the Green Economy
2. Minimizing the
1. Producing more
negative impacts of
food with fewer
farming activities
resources
on the environment
3. Helping
smallholder farmers
to break the cycle
of poverty
5. Greening the Economy with Agriculture
Policies link producers to markets, and encourage
the creation of value added products and services
Focus on production using indigenous and
scientific technologies
Invest in training for young farmers, knowledge
sharing, research and development
Recommendations to Policymakers Rio+20 (UNCSD) 2012
http://www.earthsummit2012.org/ or http://www.uncsd2012.org/
6. Agrotourism & the Green Economy
Main concerns
1. The development of
2. The capacity for
productive, functional
agriculture to reduce
and sustainable linkages
the level of leakages in
between the agriculture
tourism
and tourism sectors
7. “….. Jamaica imports US$900 million worth of
food every year and they have a population of
approximately 3 million people.
Barbados has a population of just over
250,000, we receive about 500,000 tourists
every year, and our food import bill is US$700
million.
That makes us three times more food insecure
than Jamaica!”
Dr. Chelston Brathwaite, 17th September 2012
8. Projected losses in food production due to climate change by 2080.
Source: The Environmental Food Crisis. The Environment's Role in Averting Future Food Crises. A UNEP
Rapid Assessment Report. 2009
9. Status of Caribbean Agrotourism
Linkages between the food production sector and
tourism are as low as 10-30%
For some products and for specific market niches
linkages are as high as 70-90%
Regional value chains for specific commodities
10. Status of Caribbean Agrotourism…….
Health &
Agribusiness Farm-based
Wellness
Food Community
Culinary Tourism
Festivals Tourism
Agro- Plantation
Agro-heritage
ecotourism Tours
11. Agrotourism Policy Initiatives &
Institutional Framework
2007: IICA presented a draft agrotourism strategy at the joint
meeting of the Alliance of Ministers of Agriculture and COTED at
the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA)
2008: Recommendation from the Caribbean Heads of Government
Meeting (2008) that an Agrotourism Task Force be convened
2010: Joint meeting of OECS Ministers of Agriculture and
Ministers of Tourism to build greater synergies between agriculture
and tourism,
2011 – IICA and the CARICOM Secretariat hosted a regional
workshop designed to fine-tune the regional strategy proposed by
IICA.
12. Policy Concerns for Agrotourism in the Context
of a Green Economy
Removal of intra-regional barriers to trade between
and among Caribbean member states
Review of unfavorable provisions under the EPA and
other multi-lateral and bi-lateral trade agreements
Incentives for the tourism industry to procure food
locally and intra-regionally
