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3. Markets

Mapping the St Lucia Vegetable and Roots & Tubers markets

Increasing • Women often on • Some washing, • Women vendors/ Older women
middlemen but
involvement in family farm not chopping and vendors selling
nurseries and lead packing of vegetables limited by access to produce particularly
seedling production • Ageing farmers • Flours (dasheen, finance and in Castries markets
sweet potato) transport

Suppliers Farmers Processors Distributors Buyers

Farmer groups including:
• CARIMEX St. Lucia St. Lucia Network of St. Lucia Network of St. Lucia Network of St Lucia Marketing Local Markets: Supermarkets:
• CaribSeed Ltd. Rural Women (RP Rural Women (Micoud Rural Women Board Castries market • Massy Stores
• Groo Centree and AP) 100 and Babonneau) (Micoud and Trans Caribbean Farmers markets (*Dunstan Demille)
• WIZO Ladelin Women's Roots & Tubers only: Babonneau) (Suzy’s) • Trans Caribbean
Emerald Foods
Farmers (RP) 20
(Suzy’s)
• Tropical Farm Supplies Belle Vue Farmer’s Cox Farm Roots & Tubers only: Food Service: • Glace
• Hotels
• Renwick & Co. Cooperative (RP) -------------------------- Emerald Foods Massy Distribution • Restaurants Supermarket
mainly men 300
Farmer Groups (cont.):
• M&C Home Depot Black Bay Farmers Association of Market Cox Farm (through Massy • Catering • Dilly’s
• Cox Farms (Crystal Cooperative (RP) 40 Vendors and Agricultural Stores – early Companies Supermarket
Producers. (V, RP) Mainly
mainly ageing men
Cox) – resilient Helen's Daughters women vendors TBC stages) • Eroline’s
dasheen (RP and AP) 120 Youth Agricultural Supermarket
Entrepreneurship Goddards
Grace Farmer's TBC Project: m/f between Enterprise
Cooperative (RP) 18-35 years (RP) 150
Ti Colon/Barre St Roadside Vendors (RP) TBC Distribution (GEL)
Key: Joseph Women St. Lucia Agriculture Forum Exports:
Farmers (RP) 50 Peter’s & Co • Export St
For Youth ( SLAFY) TBC
Lucia
• Size of arrow represents relative involvement of women at different stages in the value chain. • Perineau
• Information is from internal mapping workshop, not formal survey Exports
Potential partner to kick start initial collaborations
RP = Raw Production, AP = Agro-Processing, V= Vendors, TBC/ Number = members in group, * = key stakeholder and supporter of women and youth
Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) Project

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