Given its focus on targeting poor families in coastal and rural communities seeking to secure sustainable livelihoods, the Partners of the Americas shade house farming initiative has attracted considerable attention across the country.
Its creative application of farming methods provide an important incentive for families to turn to the land.
How to make farming more appealing to children given all of the various other distractions that compete for their attention, bearing in mind that farming can help increase family incomes, is one of the challenges Partners of the Americas appears to have set itself. Earlier this week, Stabroek Business was briefed on a pilot project on the West Coast Demerara designed to make agriculture “a fun activity for children” whilst simultaneously introducing them to agri-business, the pursuit of benefiting from the fruits of their labour. As a means of securing and maintaining the attention of the young farmers the
