GECAFS SANREM-CRSP Caribbean Project Planning Workshop
Georgetown, Guyana
16th - 17th June 2005
Workshop Objectives
- Finalize country-based focus of research needs
- Continue proposal development
- Agree on work tasks and deadlines
Acknowledgements
The meeting organisers gratefully acknowledge financial assistance from SANREM-CRSP.
Programme
(Detailed timings and breaks have been deleted for this web report version)
Thursday June 16
Welcome - Sam Lawrence – CARICOM
Introductions - Mosier
Session I - Project Status Review
GECAFS Overview - John Ingram
Status of GECAFS Caribbean Project - Adrian Trotman
SANREM-CRSP Brief Review of Planning Proposal - Arvin Mosier
Session II - Caribbean Regional Organizations Views on Global Environmental Change (GEC) and Food Security
CARICOM—Regional Transformation Programme for Agriculture - Sam Lawrence
CARICOM Food Security Project - Sandra Plummer
CARICOM Sustainable Development Programme - Donna Mcrae-Smith
IICA - Adrian Rodriguez/Errol Berkeley
CARICOM Climate Change Centre - Neville Trotz
CARDI - (Presentation and Document) Wendel Parham
Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism - Susan Singh-Renton
University of West Indies - Ranjit Singh
Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology - Adrian Trotman
Plenary Discussion to Agree on Principal GEC and Food Systems issues from regional perspective - Ranjit Singh
Session III - Country-based foci—food security and GEC would like these presentations to use the GECAFS food systems to direct discussions
Guyana:
Perspectives from
- USAID - Winston Harlequin
- National Agricultural Research Institute - Oudho Homenauth
- University of Guyana - Patsy Francis
- Input from Guyana Agencies
- Ministry of Local Government and Community Development - Althea Henry
- IICA Guyana - Cromwell Crawford
Haiti:
Perspectives from
- USAID - Marc-Eddy Martin / Mosier
- Quisqueya University - Regine Louis
Jamaica:
Perspectives from
- USAID: review Karen McDonald-Gayle’s comments from D.C. workshop - Mosier
- Ministry of Agriculture - Joseph Lindsay
Friday June 17
Guyana Ministry of Health Annex (Food Policy Division) - Norma Howard
Session IV - Proposal Development
Common threads amongst: Caribbean Region, Guyana, Haiti & Jamaica
GECAFS SANREM/CRSP
- Environment – development nexus
- Science in support of policy
- Action-oriented
- Multi-disciplinary (interdisciplinary) approach required
- Cross-scale linkages
- Current context important (build on current)
- National & Regional Story Lines (see Science Plan)
- Self-sustaining project (ie what happens after 4 yrs)
- Capacity building
- Equitable participation (note GECAFS Vision)
- No single tool
- Communicate to many audiences
Draft Potential Key Questions at Regional & National Level
Two Working Groups: Region & Guyana
WG1: REGION
Confirm & refine the region-level Key Research Question For The SANREM/CRSP Proposal
Map Institutional responsibilities for GEC & Food Security at Reg Level
- Which agencies in are responsible for addressing: GEC? Food security?
- How are decisions re GEC & food security made?
- What are the agencies’ info needs? (informs DSS development)
- How do we interact with these decision makers?
What analytical tools & data are available vs needed to:
- ID food-insecure peoples and regions
- Assess & promote food security over 10-20 yrs?
- Determine feedbacks on environmental conditions & development prospects?
- Communiciate food dec/env conservation to regional and national decision makers
WG2: GUYANA
Confirm & refine the Key Research Question For Guyana for The Sanrem/Crsp Proposal
Plenary:
To organise the background info for the proposal:
For each country, based on GECAFS approach to assessing food systems (i.e. availability, access, utilization):
- What are key food systems and which one will the proposal address?
- What are perceived vulnerabilities of the selected food systems to present environmental stress and to GEC?
- Where are opportunities & constraints for adaptation for the selected system?
- What are possible feedbacks (positive & negative) of these adaptations on future development and environmental conditions?
- What analytical tools & data are available versus those needed to:
- Define food systems?
- Estimate food system vulnerability?
- Evaluate adaptation options?
- Determine feedbacks on environmental conditions & development prospects?
Questions to address:
- What has been done for GEC and food security issues?
- Who are decision makers in each county?
- How are decisions made within each country?
- How do we interact with these decision makers?
- What is the role of various regional organizations within the Caribbean?
- Based on GECAFS food systems diagram, overview:
- What are key food systems in each country?
- What are perceived vulnerabilities of these food systems to GEC?
- Where are opportunities for adaptation?
- What are possible deleterious feed-backs to development and environmental goals that we need to be aware of?
Work tasks to be completed ASAP—to be used in developing other parts of the proposal – Brklacich
Review of status - Decide who will do what for developing the proposal - Mosier
Decide writing tasks to deliver materials to Arvin Mosier by end of July - Mosier
Planning for 3rd Workshop: Kingston, Jamaica, August 30-31, 2005 - Joseph Lindsay
Workshop report - Arvin Mosier