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FAO/CARICOM Webinar: COVID-19 and Food Systems


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Thursday, 7 May 2020 - 12:00 PM Barbados time (UTC -4)

 

The fifth webinar of the  FAO-COVID-19 and Food Systems Series, co-organized by the CARICOM Secretariat, will focus on “Enabling agricultural investment in the Caribbean for an effective response and post-COVID-19 recovery”

The webinar will take place on Thursday, 7 May 2020 at 12:00 P.M., Barbados time, with opening remarks by Julio Berdegué, FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, and by Renata Clarke, FAO Sub-regional Coordinator for the Caribbean (SLC).

Speakers:

 

Máximo Torero Cullen - Chief Economist and Assistant Director General of FAO.


Saboto Caesar - Minister of Agriculture, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Chair of CARICOM Agriculture Sector COVID-19 Response Task Force

Joseph Cox - CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General, Trade and Economic 

Patrick Antoine - Caribbean Private Sector Organization Representative.
 
Selected experts will pose questions following the presentation:

Michael Clifton Pintard, Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources, The Bahamas

Jeremy Stephen, Economist

Lystra Fletcher-Paul, FAO Former Sub-regional Coordinator –SLC

 

This initiative is part of the agreement made between 11 international organizations in the region to coordinate their actions and provide technical support to governments in order to keep agri-food trade alive, expand social protection systems, reach common sanitary and phytosanitary standards, and increase intraregional trade.

YouTube Live

The meeting will be webcast live on FAO’s website. Journalists can follow the discussion here.

More information about the event is available here.

 

Key Links

FAO & ECLAC weekly newsletter- Analysis and responses of Latin America and the Caribbean to the effects of COVID-19 on food systems,

Web portal on relevant information worldwide on the pandemic.

RESOURCES FOR THE MEDIA Meeting website 
FAO’s COVID-19 website

 

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