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NOTE 30: Rural Advisory Services for Agripreneurship Development

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The smallholder farming landscape is rapidly changing owing to current trends that create both challenges and opportunities for rural communities in their efforts to commercialise.In this fast-changing environment, farmers and their rural advisory service (RAS) providers must learn new  skills and find new ways of working together to develop inclusive business models that help link diverse farmers and entrepreneurs to growth markets. One solution to help with rural commercialisation is to support the growing numbers of agripreneurs, who could play a catalytic role in generating new income streams and jobs.

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FAO pushes investment in youth agricultural entrepreneurs at Caribbean Week of Agriculture

The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations and its partners are ensuring that youth involvement in Caribbean agriculture is encouraged through initiatives such as  social media training and financial investment in young Agri-preneurs.

FAO joined forces with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) to launch an exciting competition entitled – Financial investment in Young Agri-preneurs (FIYA) during Tuesday’s seminar on Agri-business Development in the Caribbean: Successes, Innovations and Impact at the Caribbean week of Agriculture in the Cayman Islands. The CWA is one of the region’s premier agricultural events and has attracted 250 delegates from over 15 Caribbean countries and several islands in the Pacific.

Read the full article at http://go-jamaica.com/pressrelease/item.php?id=7047