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.

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