Caribbean Librarian for Agriculture

Networks start informally and, if successful, tend to become formal networks, attracting funding and evolving based on the needs of the members. Members of the Caribbean Regional Agriculture Policy Network (CaRAPN) met last week at a crucial point in its existence to formulate a Medium Term Strategic Plan. This link " Strategizing to support Agriculture " is a report on the first day of the meeting - Jul 27, 2010. URL: http://www.carapn.net/index.php

The Trinidad and Tobago Network of Rural Women Producers (TTNRWP) is the Trinidad & Tobago chapter of Caribbean Network of Rural Women Producers (CANROP). TTNRWP has been in existence for the past 11 years. The current membership consists of groups of rural women throughout Trinidad and Tobago. CANROP was launched in July 1999 with support of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA), rural women of Barbados, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago . The main goals of the Network are to provide rural women with access to credit for micro-business projects, to contribute to government policies that are sensitive to and supportive of the special needs of rural women producers, to contribute to the elimination of the gender bias in the ownership of land, ensuring that women have the same opportunities as men to own property. The Network also seeks to provide marketing support for rural women producers and to offer training, research, t...

Agri-Beat   from the   Caribbean Regional Agriculture Policy Network (CaRAPN) provides links to the publications like: AgriView In a Nutshell i-Bulletins CaRAPNotes Though the newer editions are online, some of the early issues e.g. "In a Nutshell"  have very interesting material. In September 2004, IICA started www.carapn.net   to enable connections, linkages and sharing of experiences for building the CaRAPN community and serving agriculture.

At the Agricultural Information and Documentation Service of the Americas ( SIDALC) 10  meeting held in Costa Rica in September 2009, Kathryn Duncan, Information and Communication Specialist, IICA -Trinidad made a presentation on Agricultural Information Services in the Caribbean. The third SIDALC strategic workshop, organized by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), through the Orton Commemorative Library, technical coordinator of the Agricultural Information and Documentation Service of the Americas (SIDALC), brought together information specialists from the agriculture and environment sector to analyze the current state of the service, share experiences and learn of new trends in the management of information worldwide.

The objective of this Caribbean Librarians for Agriculture (CLA) Blog is to highlight online information resources which support sustainable Agriculture (including Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Development and the Environment) in the Caribbean. Resources to manage online information will also be discussed. This blog is an initiative of the Agricultural Librarians Network of Trinidad and Tobago (ALINTT). It is hoped that policy makers, researchers, students, extension personnel, farmers and persons interested in agriculture will find the resources posted on the site useful. Members at this time are: Mrs. Shamin Renwick, Librarian, Agriculture and Life Sciences Division, Main Library , The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus , Trinidad and Tobago. Mrs. Claudette de Freitas, Information Networks Manager, Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) . Ms. Kathryn Duncan, Information and Communication Specialist, Inter-American Institute for Co...