Making Climate Action Self-Financing Through Viable EbA/NbS Livelihood & Green Business

In celebration of World International Mother Earth Day (IMED) on April 22, 2024, the Caribbean Climate Responsive Agriculture Forum - CCRAF collaborated with the IICA Trinidad and Tobago Delegation to deliver a session to discuss the real and relative costs of community-based green livelihoods and businesses as viable tools to drive, mainstream, and sustain nature-based and ecosystem-based adaptation and geoengineering solutions for climate action.The session sought to reiterate that changing practices towards a ‘for the planet’ focus must also ensure that a ‘for the people’ benefits are engendered, if actions are to be sustained and mainstreamed beyond awareness campaigns and environmental projects. The session presents situations on the viability of EbA Pillar 3 ‘making use of the ecosystems for socioeconomic benefit’ for mainstreaming climate action. Each situation establishes the environment for EbA/NbS based green business/livelihoods and discuss the competitiveness of their products and services relative to alternative options. A cost of production profile for these businesses is also presented for discussion to aid in the determination of the relative competitiveness and ease of management of these alternative ‘green’ services relative to the contemporary approaches

Mejoras introducidas en la patente de invencion p200802564 procedimiento para fijar postes de señales de trafico verticales mediante la union de perfiles de diferentes sustratos utilizando la cimentacion original.

La presente invención se refiere a una serie de mejoras introducidas en la patente de invención P200802564, consistente a su vez en la reutilización de la cimentación original para la instalación de un poste de sustrato diferente al original y con las ca

Promotora de oportunidades para las mujeres rurales del caribe, Keithlin Caroo, nueva embajadora de buena voluntad del IICA

Participantes: Manuel Otero, Director General del IICA; Philip J. Pierre, Primer Ministro de Santa Lucía; y James Fletcher, Ex Ministro de Gobierno. Alfred P. Prospere, Ministro de Agricultura; Didacus Jules, Director General de CARICOM; y Keithlin Caroo, fundadora y Directora Ejecutiva de Helen’s Daughters y Embajadora de Buena Voluntad del IICA.La fundadora y Directora Ejecutiva de Helen’s Daughters, Keithlin Caroo, de San Lucía, se convirtió en la primera mujer de los países del Caribe en recibir el título de Embajadora de Buena Voluntad del Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) en temas de desarrollo sostenible

Children, Youth & Women Organizations in Agriculture Climate Action & Sustainability

Guest speakers: Keithlin Caroo, Executive Director at Helen's Daughters, Helen's Daughter - St. Lucia, Mr. Alpha Sennon, Founder of WHYFARM, WhyFarm - Trinidad & TobagoMr. Keithlin Caroo, Executive Director at Helen's Daughters and IICA Goodwill Ambassador for Sustainable Development, shares the experiences of Helen's Daughters, which is a non-profit organisation based in St. Lucia and is now expanding to other islands of the Caribbean including St. Kitts & Nevis, focuses on the economic development of rural women through improved market access, adaptive agricultural techniques, and capacity-building. Helen's Daughters work at a grassroots level providing training, mentorship, micro-investment, access to high-value markets and a structured care-system for rural women farmers, who have largely been unacknowledged and under-supported in the agricultural sector. They also use advocacy to address gender inequalities by seeking opportunities for female farmers, and to put food security and climate resilience in the public and policy agenda. Helen's Daughters advocacy involves leveraging media opportunities and our partnerships with the public and private sectors to position rural women as key actors in driving sustainable development in the Caribbean. Ms. Caroo speaks on the program that Helen's Daughters offer to help empower women in agriculture which includes, the Agri-Apprenticeship Programme, FarmHers Market, Rural Women’s Ag-cademy & Women’s Farmers Academy among others.Mr. Alpha Sennon, Founder of WHYFARM shares the experiences of WHYFARM (We Help You-th Farm), an NGO in Trinidad and Tobago that pioneers Agricultural Educational Entertainment (Agri-Edutaintment) with a mission to promote the importance of sustainable agriculture among youth and children, build their capacity in Agricultural Entrepreneurship, and empower them to contribute to achieving global food and nutrition security by the year 2050. WHYFARM has developed AGRIMAN and PhotosyntheSista, the 1st Food and Nutrition Security Superheroes, that inspires future feeders. Mr. Sennon on strategies for getting childrend and youth more engaged in agriCOOLture, and delves into some of the agricultural educational entertainment that WHYFARM develops including comic and activity books for youth and children which is equally enjoyed by adults, motion comics, Farm visits and Agriman School tours among others