In April 2019 Marion Perrett-Pearson was approached by Macmillan Education (part of the Nature Springer group) to write a GCSE level textbook for Agriculture students in the Caribbean. The deadline was August 2019 and included a trip to the Caribbean to write case-studies and take photographs. While plenty of people offered to carry her laptop, the Caribbean tour was 6 flights, 3 islands, 24 farm visits and 4000 photographs in 9 days! This talk is about the farming, farmers and students she met in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad, Grenada and Jamaica.
Marion Perrett-Pearson is a Senior Agricultural Adviser for Severn Trent, responsible for the Upper Avon and Leam priority catchments (in Warwickshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire). Marion works with farmers in these catchments to reduce diffuse pollution using Severn Trent funded schemes. Before working for Severn Trent Marion was Head of Geography in secondary schools and Chief Examiner of GCSE Agriculture and Land Use in Northern Ireland.
