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From: Ian Ivey 

Dear FAO team,

A lot of interesting items about what's happening in our region. It's great to see so many young people moveing 'outside the box' and taking bold steps forward. We have been experiencing ongoing problems with Yahoo blocking emails sent to their email account holders. Their compliance requirements for small automated mailouts are beyond what a small organisation such as ours can put in place. If you wish to keep receiving these email alerts we would recommend you switch to alternative providers such as gmail and let us know of any change in your email address.

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Latest headlines

Value Creation
About a promise

One of the things that much of the Caribbean agricultural sector does not have a well-developed understanding of is what end-customers actually want and expect when it comes to food. It is their value propositions which determine the success or failure of agricultural producers in any country.
Link: http://www.rienet.net/blog/?page=blogdisplay&ID=744


Opportunities & Threats
Resource-use Efficiency

Large global consulting groups, such as McKinsey and Company, are saying that 'rather that settling for historic resource use efficiency improvement rates of one or two percentage points a year, leaders must deliver productivity gains of 50% or so every few years'.
Link: http://www.rienet.net/blog/?page=blogdisplay&ID=743


R&D Update
Willing to help

A World Bank infoDev team undertook an extensive research survey during 2013 to develop an understanding of how interested members of the Caribbean diaspora living around the world would be in investing in businesses in their home countries and the greater Caribbean region.
Link: http://www.rienet.net/blog/?page=blogdisplay&ID=742


Success Stories
Smaller footprints

The world faces a triple whammy in future years - finding enough food, water and energy to feed an increasing global population. All three are under stress today in many parts of the world.
Link: http://www.rienet.net/blog/?page=blogdisplay&ID=741


Our Champion
A better way

This month we feature a young person who is doing some very specific and interesting research a long way from her home country here in the Caribbean with the end goal of helping to improve the efficiency and productivity of the region's poultry sector.
Link: http://www.rienet.net/blog/?page=blogdisplay&ID=740


Regional Roundup
Steps forward

Although the Caribbean region has been slow to adapt to a rapidly changing global environment, many things are now starting to happen which may help to accelerate the rate of change.
Link: http://www.rienet.net/blog/?page=blogdisplay&ID=739

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