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The Food and Agri­cul­ture (FAO) says it will over the com­ing months, con­tin­ue its sup­port to land bank ini­tia­tives across four Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­tries, with ac­tiv­i­ties geared to­wards in­tro­duc­ing, up­grad­ing and train­ing per­son­nel on na­tion­al land banks in­for­ma­tion sys­tems.

The FAO said Grena­da, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lu­cia and St Vin­cent and the Grenadines would al­so ben­e­fit from ac­tion plans that will be de­vel­oped with each coun­try, based on the dis­cus­sions of a work­shop held this week to es­tab­lish work­plans for im­proved land bank im­ple­men­ta­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to the FAO, land banks as a tool in im­prov­ing ac­cess to lands for agri­cul­tur­al de­vel­op­ment, have ex­ist­ed for decades in many parts of the world.