Towards the end of June the Caribbean was made aware that its food security condition had realized something of an improvement, albeit a marginal one, compared with what we had been told back in August last year. Then, news was that many of the region’s smaller islands, particularly, were afflicted with a condition that had been described as ‘food insecurity’. The news had been contained in an assessment titled “Food Security and Livelihoods Survey” which had declared that since August last, the situation had improved somewhat, the survey revealing that 3.7 million people, or 52 percent of the population of the English-speaking Caribbean, remained food insecure, a 10 percent improvement in the condition that had obtained back in August last year.
