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Caribbean Food Systems
"Issue Identification" Workshop

Port of Spain, Trinidad

22-23 April 2002

 

Workshop Purpose

To identify main policy-related issues for a GECAFS study on the Caribbean Food System as a key step in developing detailed research plans.

 

Workshop Objectives

  1. Establish clear priorities for policy-relevant research issues within the GECAFS framework
  2. Identify principal potential collaborators
  3. Identify research issues that could contribute to existing and planned regional programmes
  4. Design follow-up Meeting and draw-up preliminary invitee list

 

Acknowledgements

The workshop organisers gratefully acknowledge financial assistance from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Global Programs (NOAA-OGP) and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). The assistance of the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI)/Caribbean Agricultural Science and Technology Networking System (PROCICARIBE) with providing excellent local arrangements is gratefully acknowledged.

Participants

 

Programme

(Detailed timings and breaks have been deleted for this web report version)

Monday 22 April

Session I: Introduction

Welcome and Introductions - Compton Paul, Director CARDI; and Peter Gregory, GECAFS Chair

Session II: Major issues relating to the Caribbean Food System (CFS)

The Caribbean Food System and controls on socioeconomic development - Christine Bocage, Winston J. Phillips, Donatus St. Aimee, Lynda Wickham, Compton L. Paul

Global change impacts on the Caribbean Food System and current and potential environmental consequences of increasing food production - Dr Neville Trotz, CPACC

Session III: Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS)

GECAFS overview - Peter Gregory

 

Working Groups Session I

3 Working Groups to identify and prioritise research needs for policy formulation in relation to the Caribbean Food System. Each Working Group discusses:

In relation to the Caribbean Food System:

  1. Outline what priorities policy makers have
  2. Determine what information policy makers need
  3. Identify and prioritorise research needs

Synthesis of Session I Working Groups Reports

 

Tuesday 23 April

Session IV: Information needs of policy-making process at national & regional level in relation to GEC and the Caribbean Food System

GECAFS Summary - Peter Gregory

Presentations from invited policy makers/advisors.  Chair: Angela Cropper

 

Working Group Session II

3 Working Groups to identify and prioritise research needs for policy formulation in relation to the Caribbean Food System, and in the context of GEC. Each Working Group aims to:

In relation to the Caribbean Food System, and in the context of global environmental change:

  1. Identify effective ways of working with policy makers and find “entry point”
  2. Outline what priorities policy makers have [identify a specific current policy and list links to GEC]
  3. Determine what information policy makers need for the whole food system and for developing tradeoff analyses
  4. Identify and prioritorise research needs

Synthesis of Session II Working Group Reports

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