Citizen Science Initiative Empowers Trinidad’s Cocoa Farmers Through Data-Driven Research

Participants of the Citizen Science for Agricultural Prosperity (CSAP): were celebrated for their hard work in the data-driven initiative aimed at assisting farmers, youth, and researchers, track agro-ecological data, managing pest and climate risks, with initiatives such as the Trinidad cocoa farmer project.

Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Port of Spain, Andrea Stanford highlighted what it was able to accomplish.

“I am so happy to learn that this initiative has trained 71 citizen scientists and farmers, engaged more than 600 stakeholders, participants have collected over 1700 field observation, and 2500 photographs across six cocoa growing regions, five weather stations have generated more than 1000,000 environmental readings, this is amazing.”