Brief

Objectives of the CARICOM Partnership

The Partnership will respond to the issues outlined above in this paper and will support new challenges faced by CARICOM Governments of the 21st century, with an extremely dynamic environment, a rapidly changing labour market, and increasingly diverse societies – in essence, helping to “future proof” CARICOM development.

This regional partnership programme is envisaged to deal with four main target groups (beneficiaries and end-users) –

1.         Students (Girls & Boys)         

The CARICOM Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Explained - Regional Food & Nutrition Security Policy - Action Plan.

This paper analyses the likely implicationsof electronic commerce on tax revenues in the Caribbean Community. I utilised a static microeconomic approach to determine the effects.

These are a series of monthly articles aimed at informing the general public of developments in the external agricultural trade negotiations that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is involved. It is produced jointly by the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), which co-coordinates CARICOM’s external trade negotiations, the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation in Agriculture (IICA) which provides technical assistance to Caribbean countries and the Caribbean Agri-Business Association (CABA), the voice of the private agri-business sector.

The CARICOM agricultural sector is characterized by a combination of small and medium-scale enterprises both at the primary and secondary stages of production. The historical domination of the sector by plantation export agriculture has all but disappeared in some countries but retains its significance in a select number. The bulk of the sector consists of highly diversified, mainly domestic-oriented enterprises.

CARICOM Food & Nutrition Policy Brief Series #5 : TRADE AND FOOD SECURITY (FOOD SAFETY AND TBTs)