Up to this time it appears to be the case that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries are making ‘heavy weather’ of trying to navigate their way out of the choppy waters’ of food insecurity communicated to the region by the World Bank/ Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) as far back as 2021 and at least twice thereafter, the two latter warnings coming over the past two years. There are those who would argue, with considerable justification, that faced with a condition of acute food security, most of the member countries of CARICOM are likely to (as we in Guyana say) come up short were they to be required, on their own, to come up with workable solutions. The fact of the matter is that the smaller Caribbean territories, partially on account of their perpetual climate vulnerabilities, are always likely to have to import much if not most of their food. Those imports would also have to take account of their tourist arrivals.
