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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.
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