National Disaster Risk Management Committee Meeting
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Marina Young (right), Chairman of the National Agriculture Disaster Risk Management Committee, discusses Institutional Framework and Terms of Reference for Integrating Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in Jamaica’s Agriculture Sector Booklet with the Hon. Audley Shaw (2nd left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, at the National Agriculture Disaster Risk Management Committee Meeting, held at the Medallion Hall Hotel in Kingston on June 27. Others from left are Richard Thompson, Acting Director General, Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management, Peter Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Rural Agricultural Development Authority, and Bree Romuld, Value Chains and Agribusiness Technical Consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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