2022 will probably be remembered as the year in which the Caribbean sought to make what, arguably, have been the most definitive collective steps in its history to focus regional and international on the transformative capabilities of the region’s agricultural sector, even as the more global threat of climate change and, more recently, indications of a food emergency have emerged. All things considered the international community now has no choice to see the global food insecurity situation from what is really is. We have arrived at a condition in which the world, as a whole, is palpably unable to feed itself.
Up until now concerns over a global food crisis had never, even remotely, extended to the Caribbean where most countries, in a region with a decidedly modest population, have, to varying degrees, been involved in agriculture.
