Browsing by Author "Wilson, Lawrence A."

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    Alternative framework and human resources for agricultural training and development in the Caribbean
    Wilson, Lawrence A.;
    Shortcomings in the Caribbean agricultural institutional system, with particular reference to the training component of the system established since 1948, are identified and an alternative framework and human resources for agricultural training and development are outlined
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    Institutional perspectives on regional agriculture research and training in the Caribbean: An alternative framework for the 21st century
    Wilson, Lawrence A.;
    The early and recent history of agriculture in the Caribbean demands that we achieve, as a matter of urgency, the objective of full capability for indigenous and effective education and training of manpower at all levels, towards regional development and modernization of agriculture in CARICOM. This paper proposes that the key to efficient realization of these objectives is the integration of the dissemination of skills and knowledge in training and education programmes, with the stimulation of the process of agricultural modernization in research, extension and development programmes. Such integration requires the careful reversal of many of the structural characteristics of the agricultural institutional system in the region
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    Toward the future: An alternative institutional framework for agricultural research, training, extension and development in the Caricom region. Strategy 1: The case of the Eastern Caribbean states
    (Faculty of Agriculture, UWI, 1984) Wilson, Lawrence A.;
    This paper notes that the current socio-economic and socio-political condition of independent states in the CARICOM region, which led to the restructuring of The University of the West Indies (UWI), also demands a reorganization of the agricultural institutional system. Such a reorganization must be designed to harness the rapidly changing developments in agricultural science and technology in the 1980s, and beyond into the 21st century, for the benefit of the Caribbean farming community. Reorganization is also crucial to the maintenance of the integrity of CARICOM agricultural institutions as centres of innovative thought, scholarship, and outreach in agriculture, conducting appropriate research, training, and extension programmes, respectively, with outputs of trained manpower, new technologies, and improved agricultural practices, for Caribbean development