A year after the Guyana Chapter of the Partners of the Americas shade house cultivation and marketing project commenced its outreach programme across large areas of Guyana delivering education and material resources primarily though not exclusively to rural communities, the organisation’s efforts are already yielding visible and significant results.
The shade house project’s proper titled is ‘the Sustainable Livelihoods and Community Economic Growth through Hydroponic and Organic Vegetable Production and Marketing Project, but for obvious reasons, the title will not be repeated in this article. It is about working with communities to create shade house farming initiatives from the ground up, and afterwards,