Fwd: CARIBBEAN/JAMAICA: Linking Tourism and Agriculture]

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> >From: "Jayne Musumba" <jayne@sidsnet.org>
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> >Date: 28 Jul 2000 16:08:00 GMT
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> >Subject: CARIBBEAN/JAMAICA: Linking Tourism and Agriculture
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> >Linking tourism, agriculture
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> >27 July, 2000
> >
> >THE INTER-AMERICAN Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture
> >(IICA), will be one of the key participants in this year's
> >staging of the Jamaica Tourist Board's Jamaica Spice Food
> >Festival in Ocho Rios.
> >
> >As a prelude to the event, IICA will host the forum "Linking
> >Agriculture and Tourism" on Friday, July 28 at 2:00 p.m., at the
> >Ciboney Radisson Resort. This is in keeping with the theme "Local
> >Food Production for the Tourism Sector: Issues to be Resolved".
> >
> >The forum, which is open to all interested persons and is
> >intended to facilitate an exchange of information, experiences
> >and ideas among policy makers, organisations and entrepreneurs
> >involved in agriculture and the tourism sector. It will also seek
> >to suggest actions that will foster agriculture/tourism linkages
> >and increase the quantity and quality of local food consumed in
> >the tourism sector.
> >
> >The forum will be addressed by Mr. Carlos Aquino, Jnr., General
> >Manager of the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort. Discussions will be
> >led by a four member panel comprising: Mrs. Selena Tapper,
> >Executive Director of the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica
> >(EFJ), Mrs. Janet Lawrence, Marketing Manager, Rural Agricultural
> >Development Authority (RADA), Mr. Horace Peterkin, Second Vice
> >President, Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) and Mr.
> >Robert Reid, Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Agricultural
> >Society (JAS).
> >
> >On Saturday, July 29, IICA will be one of over 40 exhibitors at
> >the festival grounds at Mahogany Beach. Its display will consist
> >of agro products made by members of the National Network of Rural
> >Women Producers and include tamarind balls, bammies and dasheen,
> >breadfruit, banana and plantain chips.
> >
> >
> >SOURCE: The Jamaica Gleaner
> >
> >
Received on Sun Jul 30 12:50:36 2000