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Oct 25, 2010 News
Guyana has successfully lobbied for the issue of Climate Change and Its Impact on Agriculture to be placed as a standing item of all future COTED Agriculture meetings.
A delegation from Guyana comprising the Agriculture Trade Specialist within the Ministry of Agriculture, Johan David, the General Manager of the New Guyana Marketing Cooperation, Nizam Hassan and headed by Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud on Friday attended the 34th Special Meeting of the Council For Trade and Economic Development (COTED).
The event was held during the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA), hosted this year by Grenada.
This year’s COTED Agriculture meeting focused its attention on the two principal concerns of the region, which are, the Attainment of Food and Nutrition Security and the Removal of All Barriers and Hindrances to Trade, within the region.
It was stressed that agriculture should be included prominently within a climate change framework and a call for greater collaboration among Ministers and institutions responsible for agriculture and climate change was made.
The initiative was supported by all other Caribbean governments represented at the meeting, many of whom agreed that although the effect of climate change varies across sectors, it was the Agriculture Sector that often felt the brunt of its negative impact. The initiatives upon which Guyana has embarked, it was noted, demonstrated a nexus between forestry, low carbon economic development and climate change.
Guyana also spoke to the issue of Trade Barriers and its hindrance not only to economic development but to the crucial issue of food security within the region.
One of the most pressing concerns was the varying phytosanitary standards across the region which must be harmonised with alacrity were the region to achieve its goal of lowering its food import bill.
This led to a decision being taken by governments represented to seek the speedy operationalization of the Caribbean Agriculture Health and Food Safety Agency (CAFSA).
This organization will be vested with the responsibility for the conduct of Pest Risk Assessment Caricom countries.
This will see to a reduction in the burden of each importing country having to conduct Pest Risk Assessments (PRAs) for other Caricom countries.
The positive outcome of these two major discussions was viewed as an achievement on the part of the region.
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