FarmFinder Global Inc.

Future Farmers is doing such a great job highlighting young Barbadian farmers. A brilliant series worth following!

Today we're highlighting Future Farmer Mark Bushell. Mark considers it a privilege to be a farmer. He was recently able to gain access to the two-acre plot of land his grandmother once farmed and now he is using it to carve out his own space in the farming industry.

Mark’s journey into farming initially began through collaboration with a friend. The two purchased a pig together and were eventually able to expand and start raising other livestock. In early 2020, Mark branched out on his own and now grows cantaloupes and two varieties of watermelon on his farm.

Visit our website at http://futurefarmersbb.com/ and check out Mark's full story!

Agriculturist Chadeene Roett wants to reduce Barbados’ food import bill by enhancing and expanding the ways people consume locally grown products. After receiving her MSc in Agricultural Economics from The UWI, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Chadeene returned to Barbados with a desire to revolutionize the country’s indigenous food market.

Read her full article to see how! Click here: https://sites.google.com/view/futurefarmersbb/our-stories/chadeene-roett?authuser=0

🌱Over the weekend, FarmFinder Global, together with a team of community volunteers, hosted a popup backyard gardening initiative in coverley development where we distributed 1000 seedlings to residents.

🌱We also established a WhatsApp group for the area to facilitate the provision of free technical assistance.

🌱One of the residents kindly gifted us a box of bananas in exchange for her seedlings!

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“Someone planting pots with herbs is not going to make any difference in nutrition. We need to change the nature of the system, to treat food as a human right, not a commodity.”

'Money is worth nothing now': how Lebanon is finding a future in farming With food in short supply and prices rocketing, a wave of new farmers are growing produce on roofs, balconies and beyond

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Currently, 11% of the world’s land area is used for crop production. However, this is only 3% of the entire globe’s surface area. Now, an exciting new frontier for agriculture is opening up 70% of the world’s surface that has not traditionally been used for crops – the ocean.

If done effectively, ocean crop farming could also become a sustainable tool to help fight the effects of climate change whilst also addressing the emerging nutrition and water scarcity crisis.

Ocean Crops: Is This The Next Frontier For Agriculture? An exciting new frontier for agriculture is opening up 70% of the world’s surface that has not traditionally been used for crops – the ocean.

International Week of the Deaf 2020

Equal opportunities for all deaf people means for all underrepresented groups of deaf people as well, including deaf women. Deaf women and girls are under-represented and are at risk of facing intersectional discrimination due to their gender, disability and linguistic minority status.

Therefore, everyone - including representative organisations of deaf people - must pay attention to the specific situation of deaf women and implement precise measures to safeguard gender equality, diversity and equal participation in all decision-making processes in their society and within their organisations.

Our partnership with the The Deaf Heart Project seeks to broaden the avenues for self- development and economic activity presented to the
members of the deaf community, while advancing the interest of Barbados with respect to food security.

This beautiful 1 acre of land in St.Andrew will go toward the deaf community in Barbados, so that they may develop agricultural skills and grow food.

Pictured here is Lorenzo Harewood of FarmFinder Global, Che Greenidge of The Deaf Heart Project and Anderson Lane of Nature Fun Ranch.

Women produce an estimated 60-80% of the world’s food. Yet a “gender gap” in agriculture exists with female farmers having less access to resources than their male counterparts. Fairtrade organizations are attempting to redress those imbalances in agriculture.

Fairtrade Organizations Open Schools To Help Redress Gender Imbalances In Agricultural Communities An estimated 60-80% of the world’s food is produced by women, yet there is a significant “gender gap” in agriculture where female farmers have less access than their male counterparts to resources.