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Farmer To Famer Program

Mr. Kelvin Craig, Country Director at Partners of the Americas, Farmer to Farmer, Guyana noted that Guyana has been benefitting from funding from the project under the USAID for several decades. While it was a first-time collaboration between Food For the Poor (Guy) Inc and his organization, he pledged his continued support to work with Food For The Poor (Guy) and the Central Mahaicony Perth Village Farmers Association. 


“You have to work together, remember all you have learned over the last five (5) days, and keep on growing because it is all about empowerment. We are here and we are not going anywhere and we want to see progress,”

Kelvin Craig

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Hydroponic, organic farming making strides

A collaborative farming-based poverty reduction project financed by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Japanese Government through the Japanese Trust Fund was formally launched here on Wednesday, eight months after being implemented in poor coastal farming communities in urban and coastal regions of the country.

New initiatives to popularize shadehouse farming

The steady popularization of shadehouse farming in coastal Guyana owes much to the contributions of the Inter American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Partners of the Americas, a Washington-based non-governmental organization, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Caribbean Self-Reliance International (CASRI), a Canadian-based non-governmental organization.

FAO study on postharvest losses of cassava, mango and tomato

Study on post-harvest losses of mango, tomato, and cassava in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Saint Lucia. Presentation by Majeed Mohammed and Kelvin Craig (University of the West Indies), as part of the Regional Consultation of Experts on Food Losses and Waste in Latin America and the Caribbean, held on October 8, 9, and 10, 2014, in Santiago, Chile.