Barbados’ Prime Minister, the Honourable Mia Amor Mottley recently challenged the Caribbean to slash its annual US$4 billion food import bill by at least a quarter over the next five years. She argued ...

Record-breaking heat that has been beating down on the Caribbean for the past few months poses a grave threat to regional food security. Unprecedented temperatures are impacting soil and water, worker ...

Movement is underway to establish a center for food authenticity testing in the Caribbean. The Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA) is leading development of a concept note ...

June 30--GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) programme manager for agriculture, Sergio Garcia, says policy makers are likely to come up with an action plan to establish regional ...

The worst drought in five years is creeping across the Caribbean, prompting officials around the region to brace for a bone dry summer. From Puerto Rico to Cuba to the eastern Caribbean island of St.

Although the world is still drastically impacted by the pandemic, certain countries and islands were hit harder than others. The Caribbean and various islands of the North Atlantic Ocean were some of ...

The head of the United Nations agriculture agency stressed the huge importance of agriculture and farming to countries of the Caribbean during an address to Heads of Government at the Caribbean ...

With the Atlantic hurricane season progressively worsening over the last seven years, the Caribbean region is far too accustomed to the devastation that can — and often does — happen. Yet, there is ...

In 2013, the per capita gross national income in Nicaragua was only US$1,780; 42.5 % of the country’s population still lived below the international poverty line, and 14.6 % lived in extreme poverty.

The Anglo-American Caribbean Commission was set up in 1942 to encourage social and economic co-operation between the United States of America and its possessions and bases in the Caribbean, and the ...