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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 • Credit Unions
(‘BUILD’) connect with the women and youth that need them. This should include access to non-traditional • NDFD
finance, and avoid existing barriers to borrowing such as lack of land or collateral eg mobile lending T • GEF small grants
• Tailored training for women and youth to include in financial literacy and business development and be • IICA/ FAO/ UNDP
linked to climate resilient farming practices and secure finance and insurance products (microfinance and
technical assist)
ACCESS INCUBATOR Implement a dynamic, focused Public Private ‘incubator model’ with to support • Dominica AID Bank
('BOOST’)
• Insurance providers
existing organizations and value-chains to scale, strengthen and engage new farmers:
• Access to finance, tools, inputs, training and land • Dominica
• Influence access to land through land banks or agro-parks to lease crown or Manufacturers
unutilized land at affordable rates and enable women and youth to scale/ diversify Association (DMA)
• MoA
TRAINING Included in Finance, Climate and Quality and Quantity sections including Field Schools • DEXIA
(‘INFORM’)
• Ministries (Youth
• Reframe agricultural work as a professional undertaking to increase youth involvement through revision Dvp, Education,
PARTICIPATE of school curriculums, training, social media strategies, school gardens and agricultural youth clubs Agriculture)
(‘INSPIRE’) • National campaign to interest women and youth in agriculture as a profession (multi-media) • 4H
• UWI
ENGAGEMENT DATA Advocacy – think more broadly about wider engagement (local quality and pricing information) • DMA
• Activities such as Farmer Exchange (’experience life on a farm’) and Lead Farmer/ Mentorship
programmes in the relevant value-chain. Demonstration plots for community engagement
• Private sponsors eg
Fine Foods?
• Comms agencies
(‘ROOTS’)
POLICY Detailed review of content and budgets of existing policies including agriculture, employment, land and • FAO, DEXIA
(‘UNITE’) labour as 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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