About Jamaica 4-H Clubs

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

About Jamaica 4-H Clubs..........................................................2

About the Book...........................................................................6

Our Environment.........................................................................7

What is Weather.........................................................................18

What is climate...........................................................................25

Climate change and living things..............................................31

Climate Smart Agriculture........................................................41

Jamaica 4-H Cario -Farm Game..............................................54

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About Jamaica 4-H Clubs

The Jamaica 4-H Clubs is a youth training organization. It stimulates and guide youth in agriculture and fisheries.

The organization supports youth five (5)-thirty five (35) years through training in agriculture and fisheries, value-added agriculture, adaptable technologies, climate change management, leadership and social skills, agricultural scholarships, entrepreneurship and farming as a business and other related areas.

Youth are important to the development of agriculture and as such Jamaica 4-H Clubs believed that stimulating, educating and training them at this age is important to the transition of the agriculture sector.

Seed Identification School Garden/ Containerized Gardening Juice making & Decorating along with social etiquette / table manners

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Vision:

“To become the leading organization catalyzing changes in agricultural training and productivity in Jamaica.”

Mission:

“To mobilize, educate and train youth in agricultural and related skills through the effective deployment of staff and volunteers, utilizing adaptive technologies, to influence trainees to develop sustainable enterprises and become positive contributors to national development.”

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