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A growing number of Kenyans are travelling to Barbados for leisure and work.
Barbados therefore lacks food security – 48 per cent of residents are estimated to be food-insecure. Now the climate crisis brings changing rainfall patterns, droughts, and devastating hurricanes.
Where to eat in Barbados, from fish shacks to innovative restaurants Hearty portions of pork and fish washed down with beer or rum are the traditional staples of Barbados — but things are ...
The east coast of Barbados, with its rough Atlantic winds and rocky beaches, feels like another place entirely from the luxury resorts of the west coast. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times ...
The theme of this year’s Barbados Food and Rum Festival which runs from October 27-30, 2022, is “Feed the Future.” ...
Around 95 percent of these imports feed farm animals rather than directly feeding people. Using cereals and legumes to feed farm animals is an incredibly inefficient and wasteful means of producing ...
Barbados’s Agrofest is much like a rural Canadian fall fair. But at this three-day event, the country’s prime minister attends the first day. The country is working towards self-sufficiency in food ...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — The agricultural history of Barbados, an island in the eastern Caribbean about 900 kilometres off the coast of Venezuela, can be traced to the early days of the 16th ...
According to estimates, the Caribbean imports 83 per cent of available food, on average. Replacing only ten per cent of imported fruits and vegetables with locally grown commodities in select ...
Barbados' sizable food import bill can be significantly cut under the government’s flagship farm development programme, The Farmers Empowerment and Enfranchisement Drive (FEED).
Del’s Farm and Feed will close by this upcoming fall, when its owners — Tractor Supply Co. —open a new location in Kelso.
(Barbados Nation) A Barbados-based Caribbean company is offering to feed electricity into the national grid, almost immediately lowering household electricity bills, and saving Barbados millions ...