{"id":21547,"date":"2024-07-27T02:41:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T02:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21547"},"modified":"2024-07-27T02:42:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T02:42:24","slug":"guyanas-climate-smart-shade-house-proves-resilient-against-hurricane-beryl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyanas-climate-smart-shade-house-proves-resilient-against-hurricane-beryl\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana&#8217;s Climate Smart Shade House Proves Resilient Against Hurricane Beryl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Saskia Warrick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana&#8217;s innovative Shade House Programme has demonstrated remarkable resilience, even in the face of natural disasters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha shared this positive update in an interview with NCN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Launched in 2022, the Shade House Programme has significantly boosted agricultural productivity in Guyana, yielding high-value crops and attracting interest from regional partners, including Barbados, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This regional success story has contributed to a 25% reduction in the food import bill in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Mustapha revealed that Hurricane Beryl, which recently affected Grenada, posed a significant threat to the agricultural sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the storm&#8217;s impact, Guyana&#8217;s Climate Smart Shade Houses in Grenada remained intact and operational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resilience of the Shade House Programme is seen as a testament to its effectiveness in climate-smart agriculture practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to the hurricane&#8217;s damage, a regional plan is being developed to assist in rebuilding the agricultural industries of the affected islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initial damage estimates indicate that the hurricane caused tens of millions of dollars in losses, impacting investments, infrastructure, crops, and livelihoods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To support recovery efforts, Guyana is seeking assistance from development partners, including the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick Guyana&#8217;s innovative Shade House Programme has demonstrated remarkable resilience, even in the face of natural disasters. Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha shared this positive update in an interview&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21549,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21547\/revisions\/21549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}