Located in the South-Central hills of Barbados in the Caribbean, is a small low-income village called Bairds, with no more than 30 houses and 150 people who are mostly small farmers. In that village lives a young visionary by the name of Damian Hinkson, who has been experimenting with aquaponic prototypes from his days in secondary school and who is the founder of the community based organization, Bairds Aquaponics Association. The association, with the help of GEF SGP, is implementing a project with the ambitious goal of contributing to alternative forms of sustainable agriculture, and creating a viable community enterprise which can employ young people from the village to sell and provide maintenance for aquaponic units in Barbados, and later the Eastern Caribbean.

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