CDB / IICA · Caribbean Agri-MSE Consultancy

The Refinery

Where Caribbean agri-businesses come to be polished — at any stage, in any country, in any season.

4
pillars · five borrowing countries · everyone welcome
enters
Your business
as it is today
PILLAR 01
Data-driven
Know your numbers. Read your customers. Use the digital tools the sector already runs on.
Being Data-Driven in the Digital Age
Dawn08 July
PILLAR 02
Scale-ready
Map your growth pathway. Build the food-safety compliance and operational discipline that scaling demands.
Scale-Up Strategies & Food Safety
Anne-Marie15 July
PILLAR 03
Con-nected
Find your place in the value chain. Build partnerships that unlock buyers, suppliers, and shared infrastructure.
Collaboration Across Value Chains
Fitzroy22 July
PILLAR 04
Market-aware
Read the Caribbean food landscape. Position where regional demand and regulatory wind are blowing.
Understanding the Caribbean Food Landscape
Rachel22 July
emerges
Scale-ready
polished & placed
◆ cohort of 30 · 6 per borrowing country
The chosen six from each country also get a bespoke 1:1 pass through all four pillars — with hand-holding from each consultant and a customised scale-up plan.
open to all · the moment you get on board
Get on board. Be discovered by the world.
Whether you make the cohort of 30 or not — these are yours the moment you enter the database.
01
All four workshops, free The full refinery — Dawn, Anne-Marie, Fitzroy, Rachel
02
The full refinery framework The structure you take home with you
03
Entry into the regional database You become findable across the Caribbean
04
Your business scorecard An honest assessment of where you stand — and your own running scorecard of your evolution
05
Access to the marketplace The commercial doorway opens
06
Strategic-partner network The room the consultants open
07
Community of agri-innovators The iron-sharpens-iron room
08
Discovery by Caribbean buyers The marketing payoff — your name in front of them
As iron sharpens iron, so one agri-MSE sharpens another.
the spirit of the refinery