Capacity Building
Institutional strengthening and capacity building involves developing an organization’s core skills and capabilities in order to build increased effectiveness and sustainability. This process can assist in identifying and addressing issues, and gaining the insight, knowledge, and experience needed to solve problems and implement change. CASP can help strengthen capacity from the farm level, to government extension services, to policy and decision making at the regional and national levels. CASP can also provide agricultural training services including conferences, seminars, and on-site demonstrations.

Coastal Areas and Island Agriculture
Coastal areas and islands have unique constraints relating to agriculture. Limited land area, erosion, and other environmental considerations all affect the manner in which agriculture is undertaken in coastal areas and on islands. CASP is headquartered in Prince Edward Island, Canada, which is a small, intensively farmed island, and our members have great expertise in ensuring the compatibility of agriculture and competing development interests and dealing with major coastal issues such as climate change impacts and adaptation.

Import Substitution

Import substitution or import replacement is the identification of goods presently consumed within a region but are not produced or processed domestically. CASP can offer governments or businesses services to identify opportunities for import substitution and provide the technical capacity to begin production.

Value Chains
CASP has proven expertise in the movement of products from the farm to the market place in both the raw and processed form. CASP has completed work in Sri Lanka, Maldives and Canada for clients in this subject area. CASP believes that with a strong value chain system there is benefit to the consumer and to the farmer.