Setting aside what is widely believed to be a cultural shift in the region which, in recent years, has manifested itself in a declining interest in agriculture, the Caribbean faces other challenges in what would now appear to be a more than token effort to rekindle interest among the populations of the respective states in looking to the land.
The renewed interest in food production appears to have been triggered, first, by the region’s growing awareness of the warnings issued by international organizations, chiefly the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) regarding an imminent global food prices as well as the reality of a 2010 regional food import bill in excess of $3 billion, a cost which some of the region’s poorer economies simply cannot afford.
There are, however, challenges to the revival of the culture of eating what we grow in the region that have arisen out of
