SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (CMC) — Caribbean agriculture ministers Monday committed themselves to building the resilience of their agrifood systems to tackle the challenges they are experiencing as a result of the region’s vulnerability to climate-change related natural disasters.

The regional agriculture ministers met with their counterparts from the wider American hemisphere at the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture 2021, which was held virtually, under the theme of “Sustainable Agrifood Systems, the Engine of Development of the Americas”.

“The world is facing many challenges and the Americas has its own challenges. Specifically, we in the Caribbean need to build greater resilience to climate-change related natural disasters,” said Indar Weir, the Barbados Minister of Agriculture and Food Security.

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