modern technologies and the introduction of reengineered processes. Several key pieces of legislation have already been drafted but have not been enacted to date. These Acts will enable electronic transactions, sharing of information through systems integration and many other processes. This project seeks to have these vital pieces of legislation passed and to assess legislative and policy requirements to identify areas of focus for further legislative drafting and policy formulation. This can be done in collaboration with other ongoing regional legislative and policy initiatives. 4.7 Agriculture A key challenge faced by this sector is the effective and efficient supply chain management as a mechanism to promote the economic viability of agricultural related activities. The Agricultural Information and Integration Programme In this context, information plays a critical role. The key Programme, the Agricultural Information and Integration Programme, involves the provision of greater access of information by the St. Lucian community to facilitate sustainable development of the agricultural sector and to improve the information flow among agricultural agencies, supply chain partners and other stakeholders. This involves strengthening and extending St. Lucia’s Agricultural Resource Information System (SLARIS), the National Agricultural Information System, which was established to service the agricultural industry in St. Lucia. The database currently provides information on different agricultural statistics like area, yield and production of various crops, plantation crops, fruit crops, commodities like milk products and fish production and will be enhanced to facilitate a centralised repository where reports, documents and other major publications can be stored and catalogued for easy searching and retrieval. SLARIS will encompass a number of projects, some of which are already under development and will integrate these projects into a holistic and comprehensive solution. The projects which will contribute to this integrated programme include: Forest Information Management System (FMIS) FMIS will be used to support the planning, implementation and monitoring of multi‐objective forest management activities. It will be used for strategic and operational planning and implementation, and operational control in and across administrative units of the Ministry of Agriculture. FMIS will have the ability to maintain current forest inventories and generate maps of spatially‐oriented data. [30]