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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Mar 01 2016 – The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) Tuesday announced that it has launched a competition that seeks to identify successful cases of climate-smart practices in the Caribbean.
It said the “Climate Smart Agriculture: Stories from Farmers in the Eastern Caribbean States,” is open to organisations in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
IICA said that participating stories must demonstrate their contribution to the three objectives of climate-smart agriculture: increasing productivity and food security, fostering processes for adapting to climate change, and reducing agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions.
“Entries should focus on the resilience aspect of their stories and should document the benefits of increasing the productivity of agricultural systems and of mitigating gas emissions.
The application period begins on March 15 and ends on May 13.
The stories should clearly and explicitly document the climate risk that the technology addresses; this is a key criterion that will be taken into account in selecting the winning stories. Special consideration will be given to cases with an intergenerational and gender-based approach.
IICA said an expert jury will evaluate all of the submissions and that the winners will be announced by the middle of the year on national radio and television stations, and will also be published by IICA and the ministry of agriculture of each country on their websites.
The first-place winner will be awarded with a professional documentary about their story as well as a publication, and will be able to participate in an awards ceremony in their home country. The winner will also receive an all-expenses-paid trip to the regional awards ceremony that will be held in St. Lucia in early August.
