A training sponsored by the Global Water Partnership - Caribbean (GWP-C) and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) taught participants from Barbados about water use efficiency (WUE) in the agriculture sector.
The training included field trips to irrigation facilities and the Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (BADMC).
26 October 2012: The Global Water Partnership – Caribbean (GWP-C) and Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) trained 20 participants from the agriculture sector in Barbados in water use efficiency (WUE). The training opened with an address by Charleston Lucas, Chief Agricultural Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Barbados, who underlined that “there can be no food security without without land and water security.”
The training, which took place from 5-7 September 2012, educated participants in water and soil relationships, irrigation and WUE, and included field trips to an irrigation water collection pond, the Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (BADMC) and a farm to observe on-farm irrigation. Previous GWP-C trainings in WUE took place on St. Kitts and Jamaica.
CARDI was established by the Heads of Governments of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in 1975 to serve the agricultural research and development needs of the 12 Member Countries within CARICOM.
GWP-C was launched in in 2004, and is one of 13 Regional Water Partnerships (RWPs) of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) organisation that was founded in 1996 by the World Bank, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) to foster Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). [GWP-C Press Release]