The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for Jamaica, the Bahamas and Belize, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Enterprise hosted today a half day training workshop on “Project Beneficiary Selection using GIS based Feasibility Analysis”. The aim of the workshop was to build the capacity of the Extension Service Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture and stakeholders in using GIS based food security and general statistical data analysis to determine project feasibility and targeted interventions.

The workshop is an activity under the project of FAO’s Technical Cooperation Programme entitled “Technical Assistance for Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems in Selected Rural and Peri Urban Territories of Cayo District, Belize, as a response to COVID-19 (TCP/BZ/3801).

The training was facilitated by FAO GIS expert consultants Mr. Kirk Frekelton and Mr. Theodore Marshall from Jamaica. The workshop is designed to allow participants to apply a multicriteria evaluation technique using GIS software along with the FAO’s Hand in Hand Geospatial Platform.

Attending the training were technical officers from the Ministry of Agriculture Extension Service and the Policy Unit; Belize Marketing and Development Corporation (BMDC); the Sugar Industry Research and Development Institute (SIRDI); Cooperative Department, and the Ministry of Rural Transformation.