Approval Date: March 2018
Key Objectives:
- Contribute to policy formulation, implementation and review by providing technical assistance for assessments and analyses of policy implementation;
- Develop and mount accredited academic and outreach programmes of excellence branded to promote food and nutrition security;
- Develop and deliver relevant and current training programmes to advance public knowledge to promote individual wellness, community and national development.
- Develop short training programmes to support entrepreneurship and business development in the food and nutrition space.
- Develop and implement food safety programmes for farm-to-plate food processing.
- Engage non-government and community groups in projects, operational research, knowledge development and dissemination, and support for advocacy for policy formulation and reformulation.
- Establish a fully accessible internet-based database of information on food and nutrition security, including research data, laws, policies, protocols and national, regional and international agreements.
- Provide laboratory and seminar facilitates for training, research in food and nutrition security, and commercial product development.
- Support research and development across the food and nutrition security spectrum, with attention given to the nexus between food security and nutrition security vis-à-vis the situation of Guyana and the Caribbean region.
- Serve as observatories and incubators for food safety, food security and compliance with national and international standards.
Though this institute was approved in 2018, it has just been staffed ( 2022) through a grant and has begun to produce the first policy and innovation design documents for Guyana and the Caribbean.