← CRM JA CharityJamaica Food Security & Climate-Resilient Tree Crop Programme

Trees that feed Westmoreland for forty years.

Hurricane Melissa took the breadfruit, ackee and fruit trees that fed Western Jamaica's small farms. We are replanting them, farm by farm, with the families who own the land — and building the nursery, training and market that keep the harvest coming.

2farming households registered
0enrolled
0trees planted
15acres offered
0partners and agencies engaged

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What the programme does

Trees on family farms

Each enrolled household receives around 50 climate-resilient food trees — breadfruit first, alongside breadnut, ackee, avocado, mango, coconut and cocoa — planted with hurricane-resistant spacing on land the family already holds.

Training and a producer group

Four training modules, field days and a lead-farmer network. Farmers join a group of about fifty that holds input stores, negotiates together and owns a share of the processing centre.

A guaranteed buyer

The Savanna-la-Mar aggregation and processing centre buys at a floor price and turns breadfruit into flour, chips and frozen product for hotels, schools, supermarkets and export.

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Where we are

Concept and proposal preparedProgramme design, results framework and Phase I budget completed. · 10 Sept 2026
Land secured74 acres at Shrewsbury under lease from SCJ Holdings Limited, committed to the programme. · 10 Sept 2026
Registering farmers and partnersOpen now. Target: 300 farmer pre-registrations before funder meetings.
Charity registration completedCertificate from the Charities Authority (DCFS).
Government and FAO round tableMinistry of Agriculture, RADA, PIOJ and FAO Jamaica — positioning Phase I under Jamaica's climate-resilient agriculture programme.
Pilot: 100 farmers, 10,000 treesSmall-grant funded nursery and demonstration farm at Shrewsbury.
Phase I funding secured and planting begins1,000 farmers over 36 months.

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Governed by people you can meet

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Grow it

Practical guides on planting, feeding, protecting and harvesting breadfruit and other tree crops.

Cultivation guides

Cook it

Roast, boil, fry, bake, mill — the recipe corner is where breadfruit stops being a tree and becomes dinner.

Recipe corner

Read it

Proposal, constitution, land, accounts — everything a funder or a farmer might want to check.

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