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4. Engagement

Guyana Stakeholder and Supporting Functions

Supporting Functions: Investors Stakeholders: Climate Smart Agriculture
Eg shade houses, local water
management, pest management,
Land Use & Ownership Small Business Bureau
Focus on business development and growth, including access to finance
Land ownership in Guyana is Guaranteeing small business loans with Replublic Bank Guyana and Technology
based on location and ethnic Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Cellphone is almost universal
grouping (Indo and Afro Capacity Building Limited signal coverage
Guyanese maybe family Establishing 100 internet hubs
owned or leased longer term. IICA Potential for drones to survey
Training in climate smart agriculture
Indigenous communities is Demerara Distillers Limited New GMC Online marketplaces (Gbay
communally owned / Tropical Orchard Training for farmers and and MarketPlace)
agro processors in
Products Company Limited
Guyana Land and Surveys (TOPCO) bookkeeping, marketing, Universities and Research Organisations
Commission is responsible G$4 bn investment in a new pricing etc NAREI
- Main research arm of Ministry of Agriculture
for the lease of all Tetra Pak packaging plant Processing facilities - Good source of information and working partner Inputs/ machinery e.g
Packaging facility
government land in Guyana and fruit processing plant - Phytosanitary analysis
TOPCO to offer stable
CARDI
pricing to farmers to Collaborates with the - NAREI
stimulate supply Ministry of Agriculture Guyana School of Agriculture Government - Caribbean Chemicals
and other key Provide training for farmers as Ministry of Agriculture - Pop Up seedling shops
well as short term courses for
Infrastructure: stakeholders and agro processors HESAD programme (regions 1 and 9)
- Limited access to water partners to support IICA focused on women and youth
agriculture
and irrigation systems Green Climate Training in climate Ministry of Amerindian Affairs COVID 19
- Lack of farm to market Fund- Small Grants change, shade houses and Presidential grants used for investments including - Reduced income
hydronics for women and
agriculture. 90 % of communities being provided with a
Funds to support
transportation is a big climate resilient Women Agro- youth tractor to boost agricultural production in the village due to reduced
issue projects in processors National Agricultural Research & Extension Institute (NAREI) hours to sell
conjunction with Development University of Guyana Direct support to farmers across the country through
Network
FAO (WADNET) Institute of Applied agricultural extension officers product (or face
fines)
Science and
11 community- Technology. Strong Knowledge of farmer contacts and locations
based groups of knowledge and Ministry of Tourism Industry and - High risk of
women processing processing equipment Commerce wastage and selling
Finance & Control: products and Link farmers to hotels/ restaurants Women and off cheaply to avoid
- Limited opportunities for assisting farmers FAO New Guyana Marketing Youth Farmers taking produce
- Groups
entrepreneurs to secure loans Climate Resilient Corporation (New GMC) - Registered/ home
- Very hard to open bank account Projects on Coastal Local market development unregistered
plain to be funded with
without an employer Green Climate Funds. Branding, marketing and sales
- Private banks will not lend without Go Invest Childcare:
Contact for investors, strong
title to land New GMC understanding of value chains Rural families take care of
Dissemination of
information eg pricing, children
post harvest information Or take to the child to the
farm for security rather
*Details of key contacts in Mapping excel files than leave in external care
Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) Project
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