State of food and agriculture in the Rupununi for study

Lystra Fletcher-Paul

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Conservation International will soon begin a study of the state of food and agriculture in the Rupununi.

The project will be funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and will be the first to be done in the Caribbean, according to the FAO’s representative in Guyana Dr Lystra Fletcher-Paul. Food security is important, she stressed at a CI-hosted seminar in St Ignatius