"The success of any programme results from careful planning within a realistic framework followed by an efficient implementation. This is especially true for the development of Agriculture on a regional basis within the Caribbean. Probably the most critical ingredient is the availability of adequate technical manpower resources at every level of such a programme. In this article emphasis will be placed on the role that Chemistry and related disciplines can play in achieving such a success." (author)
At different times in its history, the Caribbean has been a strategic region -- initially with the arrival of the first Europeans in the late 15th century, then, among other things, by its proximity to the Panama Canal & later as a result of the Cuban revolution. But for some years now it has played a less important role internationally. However, as Viktor Sukup points out, "Russia's recent rapprochement with Cuba & Venezuela & the increasing engagement of China in the region" suggest that the Caribbean still has strategic importance.
"This brings out a vision, both local and transnational, of the inhabited territory. This analysis provides a diachronic outlook that may inform the current policy of regionalization of immigration."
Part of a special journal issue dedicated to strategies for societal renewal in Haiti., Haiti spends 80 percent of its export earnings to import food that the nation's farmers could produce themselves. More than a third of Haiti's farmland is underutilized.
