Grenada Sustainable Farmers' Night Market Network
Rainbow Inn Ltd
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Description
To date the Rainbow Inn management has served as the coordinating body. Going forward, the Sustainable Farmers Night Market Network needs:1. a part-time administrator who will plan, schedule and manage the process and activities associated with the initiative. 2. to maintain a continuous process of documentation, monitoring and measuring outputs and outcomes: attendance, sales, public participation and awareness, change toward sustaibility (knowledge, practices, outcomes), numbers, valuing, etc) and attitudes We intend to use a base line survey, intermittent surveying, community filming and other participatory methodologies. 3. A medium-term goal for the network is to establish a physical green infrastructure as a Center for Sustainability in order to house and showcase sustainable efforts in Grenada and around the world of SIDS and beyond. IT will serve to educate locally, visiting researchers, scientists and , tourists.
Training is needed across the board in worldview as well as economic processes and social behaviour of Network participants;Our vision is to make a success of the capacity in the St. Andrew's region, of spreading the local flow of moeny and the consumption of locally grown and manufacrured, with the expectation that it would spread across Grenada.Capacity building workshop, demonstrations and volunteer opportunities at the Night Market themselves are planned. This would involve more local community groups, especially of youth and those embracing the creative industries in food, craft, music, coastal and environmental management and natural resource and biodiversity promotions. Many other groups have yet to be part of the Network, including women and men involved in locally produced high quality products with actual or potential for low carbon and high value contribution. Workshops and other outrech will be directed at them. Out technology transfer would be focused on:Organic farming methodsGreen energy infusion in the full range of productive and distributive activities: solar, wind, geothermal.Water management system: harnessing and increasing usage of more rain-water , flood-prevention and clean water maintainance and recycling.Social media use (scaling up): to showcase our efforts in Grenada as a SIDS leader , “Island of Sustainability†and learn from other SIDS, others.
The leadership is in constant dialogue and communication as we are in the same region and similar and overlapping areas of work: food, geo-tourism, education, farming, etc. Decisions are taken at weekly meetings where from among those present, a majority agrees; if the decision taken is signifcant, we return to the same topic at a second meetings so as to secure a broader and deeper consensus. Publishing the results of surveys is another way we plan to be accountable and transparent.The monthly sessions are reported in the media as another strategy for accountability.
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Grenada Rural Women Producers (NGO)
Neanganfioux Organic Farm (small business)
The Goat Dairy (NGO)
Belmont Estate (private sector)
Grenada Education and Development Organization, GRENED (NGO)
St. Patrick's Environmental Community Tourism Organization, SPECTO (NGO)
The Grenada Choclate Factory (small business)
The Zero Hunger Project (Government)
The Ministry of Agriculture / Environment (Government)
SDGS & Targets
Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
14.1.1
(a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density
14.2
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.2.1
Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas
14.3
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
14.3.1
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
14.4.1
14.5
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
14.5.1
14.6
By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation
14.6.1
Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
14.7
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
14.7.1
Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries
14.a
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
14.a.1
14.b
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
14.b.1
Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small‐scale fisheries
14.c
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want"
14.c.1
Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources
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