The 20th edition of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) will be held in Jamaica from 27 September – 2 October. CWA 2025 will be held under the theme, The New F.A.C.E. of Caribbean Food Systems: Food Security, Agri-Business Development, Climate Smart Technologies and Export Expansion.

CWA is the premier event on the regional agricultural calendar. It is a roving event hosted by CARICOM Member States and Associate Members and includes seminars, key meetings, a special meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), and an exhibition.

The CWA was conceptualised by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) as a facility to place agriculture and rural life on the front burner of regional integration activities and in doing so enable: 

• the key decision-makers in the public and private sectors to better acknowledge the importance of agriculture and rural life to the economic, social, and environmental stability of the region; and 

• the major stakeholders in agriculture and related sectors to have an opportunity to dialogue and forge a common vision for the repositioning of agriculture and the enhancement of rural life. 

The CWA is convened under the aegis of the Alliance for Sustainable Development of Agriculture and the Rural Milieu (The Alliance).  From the inaugural meeting in 1998, the two main collaborating agencies were IICA and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. 

In 2002, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) joined IICA and CARICOM to establish a core group which functions as the Secretariat of The Alliance. Since then, the four agencies have collaborated on the management and logistics necessary for the convening and servicing of meetings of The Alliance as well as the myriad of activities during the CWA. The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) which was a joint international institution of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and the European Union (EU) from 1983 – 2020, was a major partner and sponsor of the CWA activities from 2003. 

To date, there have been 19 successful editions of the CWA. The first CWA was held in Trinidad and Tobago in 1999. Last year, St. Kitts and Nevis hosted the event. Jamaica is waiting to welcome you for this year's installement of Caribbean Week of Agriculture at the prestigous Ocean Coral Spring Resort on the beautiful coast of Trelawny.