Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator Welcomes the Cayman Islands as its Newest Coalition Territory
Minister of Planning, Agriculture, Housing and Infrastructure, Hon. Johany Ebanks and CCSA Director of Public Sector Projects Kiesha Farnum shake hands on signing the official coalition member documents.
The Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator (CCSA) is proud to welcome the Cayman Islands to its coalition of territories!
Minister of Planning, Agriculture, Housing and Infrastructure, Hon. Johany Ebanks and CCSA Director of Public Sector Projects Kiesha Farnum signed the official documents on January 11, 2024.
This is an extra special development prompted by an already successful collaboration. The Cayman Islands is a participant in the CCSA’s Climate-Smart Agriculture pilot project alongside two other islands, Anguilla and Barbados. The project leverages the indoor hydroponics systems called Flex Farms by Wisconsin-based company Fork Farms to empower communities including schools and vulnerable groups to grow their own food under changing weather patterns and increasing water scarcity.
The Cayman Islands have also already taken steps to scale the project exponentially with the purchase of an additional 20 units in the last quarter of 2023. These are currently being distributed to schools across the islands.
CEO of the CCSA Racquel Moses commented, “Our coalition only stands to gain from the incredible enthusiasm, foresight and ambition of the Cayman Islands government that we’ve seen demonstrated in their approach to the climate smart agriculture pilot project. We look forward to their role as we increase sharing and cooperation across our now 29 member-strong coalition in other areas like renewable energy, generating green jobs and land and ocean conservation to accelerate the Caribbean towards being a Climate-Smart Zone.”
Being a part of the CCSA coalition will lend even more support to the Cayman Islands in the development of climate smart initiatives.
This marks an incredible start to 2024 and the CCSA team couldn’t be more pleased.
Cayman Islands we embrace you as our newest coalition territory.
