Resources

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Early Warnings for All Dashboard

The Early Warnings for All Initiative dashboard aims at tracking progress, informing decision-making and measuring success as key elements for achieving its five-year goal of the Early Warnings for All Initiative: to ensure that all people on Earth are covered by early warning systems by 2027.

Resource type:Digital tools or applications

Regional Environmental Monitoring Data Portal (REMDAP)

The Regional Environmental Monitoring Data Portal (REMDAP) operates as a hub for decision-making, improving the effectiveness of environmental monitoring and assessment throughout the Caribbean. REMDAP aims to provide decision makers, NGOs, academic institutions and the private sector with a constant supply of reliable data. Provides a variety of useful metrics, indicators and variables, complete with details on models and methods for their calculation, to track environmental status. Additionally, REMDAP includes multi-scale tools and indicators designed to monitor progress toward goals established in multilateral environmental agreements, while boosting regional capacity to manage spatial data and information related to environmental indicators.

Resource type:Online databases

Policy brief: Safeguarding the TR4 Region

The policy brief urges policymakers and public officials to take proactive measures to prevent the entry of TR4 and protect the banana and plantain industry in producing and exporting countries in the region. The creation of a Technical Working Group by the Caribbean Plant Health Directors (CPHD TWG-Musa Species) is highlighted, which acts as an emergency mechanism to lead and coordinate actions at the regional and international level. The group works to strengthen biosecurity at ports, increase national surveillance, and train farmers and customs officials in biosecurity measures. Additionally, it focuses on research into TR4-tolerant or resistant varieties and establishing capabilities for the safe introduction of certified TR4-resistant germplasm.

Resource type:Policy brief

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Evidences

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Investing in community resilience

USD 20 million was invested by the GCF together with the Department of Environment of Antigua and Barbuda to improve community resilience in three SIDS in the region, including Dominica and Grenada, through ecosystem services and climate-resilient infrastructure (ECLAC, 2024).

Antigua and Barbuda: Agricultural units

91.2% of the farms in Antigua and Barbuda are family farms, with 1,118 units and 0.44 ha on average.

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Investments and Public Expenditure

(17 records - USD 693,359,208.00 )

National Agricultural Catastrophe Fund linked to the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF)

Proposal for a national financial protection mechanism for the agricultural sector against catastrophes, linked to the CCRIF and to agricultural risk management and transfer

CARICOM Regional E-Agriculture Strategy

A regional priority line to strengthen agricultural and rural development through innovative information and communication technologies (ICT). It envisions a regional E-Agriculture strategy, a B2B platform for agricultural buyers and sellers, a G2G portal, precision technologies, a virtual extension platform, and farmer exposure to climate-smart agriculture

Regional Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) Strategy 2014–2024

The CDM Strategy 2014-2024 is a regional strategic framework that represents a paradigm shift from a reactive to an anticipatory approach to disaster management. Its core objective is the integration of disaster management considerations into the development planning and decision-making process of CDEMA’s Participating States. It addresses all hazards and all phases of the disaster cycle: prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery, and rehabilitation

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Policy frameworks

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CARICOM 25 by 2025+5 Implementation Plan 2026–2030

Regional plan for production, food security, and intra-regional trade. It includes agricultural insurance, digitalization, R&D, and capacity building. It recognizes climate variability as a production challenge

Caricom Agri-Food Systems Agenda

Regional agenda that includes aspects such as Agriculture Disaster and Risk Management, risk transfer mechanisms, climate-smart agriculture, and the strengthening of agri-food systems

Sustainable Island Resource Management Zoning Plan (SIRMZP) of Antigua and Barbuda

National strategic land-use framework for Antigua and Barbuda that updates the National Physical Development Plan with a 20-year horizon. It integrates ecological studies, geographic-sectoral analysis, and low-carbon development scenarios to optimize the productive use of natural resources — including agricultural land, fisheries, and tourism — without exceeding the resilience of coastal, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems.

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Dialogue rooms

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Policy alternatives to the fertilizer crisis (in Spanish)

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