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| Yolanda is a qualified regional and environmental planner with extensive knowledge and experience ... more |
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| Vernese is an environmental management and policy specialist with more than fifteen years experience ... more |
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Service Category: POLICY DEVELOPMENT
Client: United Nations Environment Programme/Global Environmental Facility and the Ministry of Housing, Lands and the Environment, Barbados.
Description: Development of a Framework for Biosafety/ Biotechnology for Barbados, as a means of managing its local biodiversity and the potential implications of modern biotechnology in a manner compliant with the goals and objectives agreed to by the international community. Conducted assessments of the existing institutional and administrative arrangements for managing biosafety/biotechnology, developed and drafted an appropriate policy and administrative framework, prepared inventories of relevant data,
Challenges: The management of biotechnology risks is a relatively new area for Barbados. As a result, a critical task was to identify an institutional and legislative structure within which the subject could be addressed.
Ecoisle Solutions: In the absence of pre-existing arrangements designed specifically to respond to the challenges associated with biotechnology and biosafety, Ecoisle Consulting Inc. conducted a comprehensive institutional and legislative review and there-from developed an institutional framework and a legal framework from which relevant policy could be implemented. A National Biosafety Policy was also drafted. |
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ANTHURIUM LILIES BEING GROWN IN A SHADE HOUSE
One of the uses of biotechnology in the Caribbean has been application of tissue culture methodology in the propagation of Anthurium sp.
The development of anthurium lilies with increased resistance to bacterial diseases has been accomplished through genetic modification |
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