Two days.
One Declaration.

Registration & Agri Deal Room Opens

Deal Room activates with pre-loaded project registry: agro-processing investment opportunities, CEA development sites, fishing quota partnerships, cold chain infrastructure projects. Morning market walk: Caribbean produce, processed food, and agri-tech showcase from participating vendors and cooperatives.

The $6 Billion Question — Why Does the Caribbean Import 80% of Its Food?

Chair · Summit Director & host government agriculture minister

Opening data presentation: $6B+ import bill. 3.2 million food insecure. 42% food insecurity rate. 94% reporting higher food prices. 30% skipping meals. $6.4M Beryl crop losses. The region that imports the world's most food despite year-round sun, fertile land, and the richest fishing grounds in the Atlantic. This keynote names the paradox, rejects the excuses, and sets the CAFS mandate: this ends by 2030.

Vision 25×2030 — Progress, Setbacks, and the Path Forward

Chair · President of Guyana (invited) or CARICOM Secretary-General

The 24% production increase 2022–2024. Hurricane Beryl's devastation. The extension to 2030. The $100M credit facility. The commitment to increase national agriculture budgets to 5%. What the next five years must deliver. The specific ask of every minister in the room: come with a commitment, not a speech.

Break & Deal Room — First Rotation

30 minutes. First Deal Room rotation: Guyana supply chain meetings, CEA project introductions, fisheries partnership 1:1s, cold chain infrastructure finance meetings.

Track 2 — Guyana's Surplus: How Does It Feed the Caribbean?

PRODUCTION ANCHOR. The bottleneck is not production — it's logistics, phytosanitary harmonisation, and price. The Guyana–T&T–Grenada–Barbados maritime service study (CDB/FAO). Cold chain requirements. The CARICOM Credit Facility mechanism for pre-financing agricultural purchases. Output: CARICOM Agricultural Supply Chain Compact — first draft.

Track 4 — Fisheries & Blue Food: The 540,000-Job Opportunity

FISHERIES ANCHOR. CRFM's 130,000 fishers harvest $527M of seafood annually — yet the region imports $348.4M more than it exports. The aquaculture scale-up mandate from the CRFM September 2025 Special Meeting. Antigua & Barbuda as new CRFM Chair. Sargassum as a resilience product. IUU fishing as a GDP leak. How does intra-CARICOM fisheries trade grow from 20% toward 50%?

Lunch — Agricultural Roundtables

Seated lunch at dedicated tables: Food Sovereignty Policy · Guyana Supply Chain · CEA & AgriTech · Fisheries & Aquaculture · Agro-Processing · Cold Chain & Logistics · Climate-Smart Farming · Youth & Women · Caribbean Food Brand · Agricultural Finance. Each table has a facilitator and produces a 3-point commitment brief for the Declaration.

Track 3 — AgriTech: From Laboratory to Caribbean Farm

AGRITECH BREAKTHROUGH. CEA's Caribbean case: 90% water savings, hurricane-engineered greenhouses, year-round 5-star-grade produce for hospitality. AgriFORCE-Barbados MOU as pilot. The global agritech investment wave. Mobile apps for farmer market access in the Eastern Caribbean. AI crop management and precision irrigation. What does a Caribbean National CEA Programme look like — and who funds it?

Track 8 — Climate-Smart Farming: Post-Beryl Rebuilding on the Right Foundation

CLIMATE ADAPTATION TRACK. Hurricane Beryl as the inflection point. Drought-resistant varieties, shade houses, agroforestry, precision irrigation. Agricultural insurance — CARICOM Heads committed to expanded uptake in February 2025. GCF and CDB climate finance windows. Output: Caribbean Climate-Smart Agriculture Standards framework.

Track 9 — Youth & Women: The Next Generation of Caribbean Farmers

PARALLEL BREAKOUT. Land access, social stigma, and financing as the three barriers. CARICOM's 20% youth/women participation target. AgriTech as career reframe: data scientist, precision farmer, agri-tech founder. Caribbean agri-preneurs as the private capital opportunity. Output: Caribbean Agri-Entrepreneur Investment Case.

Day 1 Synthesis

Chair · Summit Director & rapporteur team

Production commitments made, supply chain paths named, technology deployments proposed, financing gaps identified. Draft CAFS Declaration sections from the day presented publicly. Ministers invited to affirm, amend, or challenge specific commitments.

CAFS Awards — Harvest Night Gala

Annual recognition across 8 categories. Formal dinner featuring Caribbean-grown cuisine prepared by regional chefs — the menu itself is a proof of concept. Keynote from a Caribbean head of government or CARICOM Secretary-General. Press-credentialed and livestreamed.