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Presentations listed below

Climate Change Conference May 2012

Presented Kingston May 2012
Pathway to Resilience, Wordsworth Gordon President Jeffrey Town Farmers

  • Jeffrey Town is a small rural community of approximately 3000 people in western St. Mary, the farmers group has been leading the development process since inception in 1991 and formal registration in 2003 as a company limited by guarantee. We meet monthly to deal with farming issues and address all activities related to the community development committee. We have a nine person executive overseeing the operations of the farmers association and its projects, the women’s group, the youth group, the multimedia centre and radio and a twenty person disaster committee.

  • In the 1990’s Jeffrey Town made its name for group farming, working day for day and for laying three and a half miles of 4inch cast iron pipe for water to reach all of the residents. More recently we have included environmental protection and climate change mitigation activities to our diverse mandate. >>>>>Read more

DRR Champion for Caribbean Presentation

  • Presented at ACP House Brussels Belgium February 2015 Ivy Gordon Delegate Jeffrey Town Farmers Association

  • I want to share with you some real life stories that have occurred in Jamaica, and by talking about some of the things we have done in our community you will see that capacity or the lack of it relates directly to vulnerability.
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Breadfruit Conference Trinidad July 2015

Jeffrey Town, A Small Player in the Breadfruit Industry
Ivy Gordon
Jeffrey Town Farmers Association 2015

Abstract

 

  • This paper will introduce you to the award winning community of Jeffrey Town, the new home of Breadfruit Festival in Jamaica since 2005. It will tell you a little of its history and characteristics before looking more specifically at matters breadfruit.

    The organization of the Breadfruit Festival in this community has been undertaken by the Jeffery Town Farmers Association (JTFA). The festival events will be described in general and the partner agencies identified. An outline will be presented of activities undertaken from the planting of trees to the development of a vast array of products that have been created and offered for sale locally. Some of the problems faced as well as the achievements will be discussed, with special mention of the Jeffrey Town breakfast programme.>>>>>Read more

Knowledge Sharing Forum GEF SPG Trinidad

Lessons Learnt, Ivy Gordon presented at the Knowledge Sharing Forum Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business Trinidad June 2015

  1. I start today’s presentation with a series of slides that I will run through quite quickly just to give you a clear back ground of where I am from and the work our group has done over the years.

  2. Our place in Jamaica

    1700 feet above sea level, 33% unemployment of working age people

    • Population is 2982 with slightly more women than men where the majority relies directly or indirectly on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods. Most of this farming takes place on small holdings of five hectares or less and it located on hillsides 50% of these slopes are more than 20 degrees, and it is a watersheds area. >>>>Read more

Launch of Public Awareness Campaign COP21

Wordsworth Gordon spoke on behalf of Civil Society Groups August 2015

 

Good Morning it is my privilege to bring greeting to you today on behalf of the CSO community. It is good that we are talking about the twenty first edition of the Conference of Parties in fact talking about climate change and how it affects us.

We have negotiators working on our behalf even now as we speak and yet too many of our fellow Jamaicans are yet to recognize the implications of this year’s deliberation and expected agreement.

In June of this year at the discussions hosted by the Embassy of France we were encouraged by Dr. Taylor to remember the number two, representing a two degrees Celsius raise in temperature as a figure for the COP agreement as better for us in Jamaica than a possible deal at four degrees and we were told by PANOS Caribbean that the small island states together had coined the phrase “one point five to stay alive”.>>>>Read more

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