What if the key to Jamaica’s food security and economic growth lie in a traditional but underutilised resource? Goat farming, deeply rooted in Jamaican culture, is emerging as the future of ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The 2023 National Champion Farmer, Owen Bartley, is encouraging more people to get into goat farming, noting that the sector is profitable. “Goat farming is so big.

“I farm goats and cows and cabbage in the bush,” says Baxter, a middle-aged farmer in Jamaica. Inquire further and he starts to laugh. Baxter isn’t his real name. He doesn’t want to use ...

In the case of Jamaica, the growth of backyard farming emerged against the context of social protection which was provided to the most vulnerable, helping to bring multi-pronged relief during the ...