Jamaica Sustainable Farm Enterprise to develop organic farming

More and more, people all over the world are eating less cultivated food that has been nourished by man-made fertilisers. Their main concern is that the consumption of the said food contributes to ill-health, and eventually death.

So they are now turning to organic food, which they call 'clean food', food that was not nourished by chemicals. And, right here in Jamaica, there is a growing movement which promotes eating only cleanly cultivated food.

That movement is now getting some overseas support. Beginning last month, the Florida Association for Volunteer Action in the Caribbean and the Americas (FAVACA) launched a new three-and-a-half-year programme, which will concentrate on 'the development of market-driven organic agricultural production', through the Jamaica Sustainable Farm Enterprise Programme (JSFEP), whose country director-coordinator is Nicola Shirley-Phillips of the Source Farm Foundation, which has been selected as the implementing partner for the programme in Jamaica.

As the country director-coordinator, Shirley-Phillips works with all the stakeholders (local and overseas) to "ensure that all aspect of JSFEP is implemented in an efficient and timely manner".

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