– to be held in Guyana next week
THE Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, Government of Italy and the European Union will be convening a workshop next week  to review a Draft Regional Policy for Food and Nutrition Security.

The Validation Workshop for the CARICOM Regional Policy for Food and Nutrition Security will seek to identify gaps and omissions in the policy and make relevant recommendations for amendments, according to an advisory from the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown..

This Workshop, which will be held from 28-29 September, 2010 at the Princess Hotel, Providence, East Bank Demerara, forms part of the second phase of the FAO Food Security Policy project aimed at improving food security in CARICOM/CARIFORUM states through the strengthening of the food policy environment and the support of services to promote efficient and sustainable food systems.

This formal opening will feature an address by Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud. Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Assistant Secretary-General, Trade and Economic Integration, CARICOM Secretariat and Mrs. Florita Kentish, Caribbean Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, will also deliver remarks.

The FAO, during the Opening Ceremony will also seek to amass signatures for its global campaign against hunger which it is executing under the theme: “1 Billion Hungry.”