Many small island developing states (SIDS) face specific disadvantages associated with small size, insularity, remoteness, and proneness to natural disasters. These factors render the economies of these states very vulnerable to forces outside their control — a condition that sometimes threatens their economic viability. The GDP or GNP per capita of these states often conceals this reality.
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) reports that 50% of small island states import 80% of their foods. Their agricultural produce is mainly seasonal, and farmers tend to grow the same crops which result in market overflow on one specific product. At the same time, other food items, that could have been grown are imported.
Many small island states are located where crops can be grown year-round. While being an island also places them in the middle of the ocean with an abundance of resources such as seaweeds, fish, and other growable food products.
Dadlihack 4.0 takes aim at this and wants to get the ideas, solutions, and innovations that can help solve this problem.
If you have ideas, innovations, or solutions to micro-farming, vertical farming, resource management, logistics, or blue agriculture we want you to send in an application to Dadlihack 4.0. Twenty (20) finalists will be invited to a five-day boot camp on Antigua where five (5) winners will be selected to stay for 12 months to bring their ideas into reality.
