by Sheena Forde-Craigg | Feb 8, 2019 | banner, Top Stories
Between 30 and 70 per cent of every fish caught by local fishermen is discarded, and efforts are being put in place to reduce this wastage. Minister of Maritime Affairs and the Blue Economy, Kirk Humphrey, made this disclosure last Friday, during a press conference on...
by Sheena Forde-Craigg | Sep 21, 2018 | Ministry News
Modern Small Ruminant Management will be the focus of a workshop being hosted by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture and the Food and Agriculture Organization, in association with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security. It will take...
by Julie Carrington | Mar 29, 2018 | banner, Top Stories
The Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation’s (BADMC), existing national cassava value chain programme is in for a big boost. That is because the BADMC, with assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization, will be establishing a...
by Julie Carrington | Oct 4, 2017 | Ministry News
Agricultural officials, as well as nutrition and education experts from Latin America and the Caribbean, are currently meeting in Brasilia, Brazil, to discuss a new vision for school feeding programmes for the Caribbean. This is with a view to highlighting the...
by Julie Carrington | Sep 14, 2017 | Ministry News
A high-level Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) official has expressed the view that a transformation of agricultural systems is needed to arrest the incidence of poor nutrition and chronic non-communicable diseases that occur on account of obesity while...
