 The Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean SAC project is a 5-year initiative that promotes climate-resilient agriculture for equitable growth with the goal of increasing economic prosperity for women and youth in more sustainable agricultural markets. The project will work with agricultural market actors to address gaps and barriers. The training exercise aimed to assess extension support service gaps, particularly those related to climate sustainability and climate-smart agriculture in order to better equip extension services. Country coordinator of the OECS for Whisk Caribbean, Dr Nadia Paket Antelme, explains that the project will also facilitate the provision of capacity strengthening support for all actors in the market systems. In St Lucia, the project was launched actually late last year under the blessing of the Canadian High Commission and the Minister of Agriculture in St Lucia, and today especially and particularly, we're looking at how can we engage extension support services, not only extension support services within the Ministry of Agriculture but also those in the private sector who can further support the work of women and youth in agriculture. As the Ministry of Agriculture continues to promote food security, the Director of Agricultural Services, Dr Oria King-Snark, explains that the SAC project will provide great opportunities for women and youth in agriculture by increasing their markets in the Caribbean, strengthening climate-resilient domestic agricultural production, and reducing reliance on imported agricultural products for more sustainable growth. I think the project is timely, especially now with what's going on, on year rising with threats of food and nutrition security. So this project comes in at a time to assist our farmers, build capacity to strengthen them in terms of producing, increasing production and productivity on their farms, to ensure that the agricultural sector is more sustainable by implementing climate smart methods to improve production and the capacity to feed our people, especially in the trying times of COVID pandemic and also with the possibility of having food shortages due to the war which is ongoing right now. The SAC project is currently being implemented in Dominica, Cayana, Jamaica, Suriname and St Lucia. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Anisia Antoine reporting.