Presentation from day 2 of: "Policy setting for improved linkages between agriculture, trade and tourism: Strengthening the local agrifood sector and promoting healthy food in agritourism" Workshop organised by the Government of Vanuatu and CTA in collaboration with IICA and PIPSO, Port-Vila, Vanuatu, 25-27 May 2016

1. Ena Harvey
IICA Representative, Barbados
& Agrotourism Specialist
Linking Agriculture and Tourism through Policy Setting
Caribbean-Pacific Forum, May 25-28, 2016 Vanuatu
Value Chain Training to build
Sustainable Continuity of Supply to
Meet Demand: Lessons learned from
the Caribbean

2. Training Needs along Value Chain
 Value Chain Concepts
 Production Technology
 Working as Farmers organisations
 Organic Production and certification
 Climate Smart Agriculture
 Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs)
 Harvesting and Postharvest Handling
 Developing partnerships with buyers in
tourism sector
 Marketing and Promotion (incl.
branding)

3. EU APP Caribbean: Value Chain
Training and Implementation
Improved entrepreneurial, marketing, and organizational
capacities of small holders and value-adding enterprise
Improved knowledge among financial service providers in
CARIFORUM of innovative financing schemes to support the
development of commodity value chains involving smallholders

4. EU APP Caribbean: Value Chain
Training and Implementation
• Women & Youth (academia and agribusiness)
afforded more opportunities to participate in
international and regional fora & training in policy
dialogue, farming systems development and value
added/product development (C1, C2, C3) including:
• Supporting 2 youth to Ignite Caribbean forum in
Wash. D.C
• Training of Ebony Park Heart Academy trainees,
Jamaica in production & management of hot
pepper seeds
• Training of 2 women from Dom Rep in goat
cheese making in Spain

5. Capacity Building: Public Sector
Initiated the development of manuals, handbooks SOPs
 Train-the-trainer programme and GAP Audit Manual
being developed
 Pesticide manual being developed (CGPC)
Regulatory Professionals trained in key areas of risk
surveillance, inspection
 CaribVET the Regional Salmonella Surveillance and Risk
Management workshop (Jamaica)
 One-Health Leadership series
 Food Borne Disease Surveillance/AMR (Trinidad and Tobago)
 Plant Quarantine Course (Trinidad and Tobago)
 Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (Mexico)

6. Capacity Building: Private Sector
Trained in key areas of food safety/GAP
Food Hygiene Bureau’s 7th Caribbean
International Food Safety and Security
(Jamaica).
Objective - increase knowledge and
understanding of international standards and
best practices in the global food market.

7. Implementation Progress: Technical
Component 3: Capacity Building
Consultations with key
national, regional and
international stakeholders
held to gather baseline
information required for
developing environmental
and monitoring
programmes
Initiated the design of environmental and
residue monitoring programmes (CRFM)

8. Agricultural Health & Food
Safety
 Food Safety Modernization Act

9. IICA Youth Farm
Summer Programme
Crop Production
Livestock Rearing

10. Competency Based Training
and Certification
Crop Production
Rabbit Rearing
Livestock Rearing
AgroProcessing
Butchery
Tree Crop Farming

11. Innovations in Production
 Perone Bee hive construction and
management
 Permaculture
 Climate Smart Agriculture (CCSA Forum)
 CARIBSAVE Manual for SMEs
 Ferrocement water storage tanks

12. IICA MEXICO / SAGARPA
TRAINING PROGRAMME
 Artificial Insemination of Barbados Blackbelly Sheep
 Greenhouse Technology

13. Agro-Eco Tourism, Rural Tourism,
Food Tourism
 Workshops on Women’s Economic Empowerment in
Agrotourism and Investing in Agrotourism (CWA 2013)
 Agro-Eco Tourism online course
 Tour Guide training, Suriname project
 Plantation Breakfast, Barbados
 Partnership meetings between farmers and hoteliers

14. Women and Youth in
Agriculture & the Alliance
 CANROP and CAFY Networks and national chapters
 CAFAN Regional Farmers Network
Training in Governance, Institutional Management,
Proposal preparation, Technical Areas, participation in
several training workshops on agroprocessing,
marketing, value chain inter alia
Supported by the CTA