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6. Recommendations

Detailed recommendations for women and youth

Suppliers Farmers Processors Distributors Buyers POTENTIAL
PARTNERS

FINANCE • Support finance and insurance companies to design and offer relevant, accessible low cost products to • St Lucia
(‘BUILD’) connect with the women and youth that need them. This should include access to non-traditional Development Bank
finance, and avoid existing barriers to borrowing such as lack of land or collateral eg mobile lending T • Vieux-Fort Credit
• Tailored training for women and youth to include in financial literacy and business development and be Union (lower rates)
linked to climate resilient farming practices and secure finance and insurance products • Massy (loans to
farmers)
ACCESS INCUBATOR Implement a dynamic, focused Public Private ‘incubator model’ with to support • IICA/ IUCN (micro
('BOOST’)
finance)
existing organizations and value-chains to scale, strengthen and engage new farmers:
• Access to finance, tools, inputs, training and land • FAST
• Influence access to land through land banks or agro-parks to lease crown or • LPP Insurance (tbc)
unutilized land at affordable rates and enable women and youth to scale/ diversify • Export St Lucia
• MoA and National
TRAINING Included in Finance, Climate and Quality and Quantity sections including Farmer Field Schools Agricultural Policy
(‘INFORM’) • Helen’s Daughters
• National campaign to interest women and youth in agriculture as a profession (multi-media)
PARTICIPATE • Engagement activities such as Farmer Exchange (’experience life on a farm’) and Lead Farmer/ • MOA
(‘INSPIRE’) • Reframe agricultural work as a professional undertaking to increase youth involvement through revision • SLU Hotel &
Mentorship programmes in the relevant value-chain. Demonstration plots for community engagement
Tourism Ltd
ENGAGEMENT DATA Explore market pricing & buyer access through the Market Intelligence platform Guru, and Virtual Ag • Co-operatives
of school curriculums, training, social media strategies, school gardens and agricultural youth clubs
• St. Lucia Network of
Rural Women
(‘ROOTS’)
• Branding/
Clearing House (SLU Hotel and Tourism), and MoA to collect and publish current cost and price data
marketing agencies
POLICY Detailed review of content and budgets of existing policies including agriculture, employment and labour as • SAC Gender Experts
(‘UNITE’) well as gender-based violence, formulate detailed recommendations and benefits of changes to incorporate
women and youth. Engage key government decision makers and support of Gender Affairs

Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) Project

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