President Irfaan Ali is very much ‘on point’ in his remark earlier this month about “a lot more” needing to be done if the region “is to reduce its food importation costs whilst , simultaneously, boosting its agricultural sector.
Whilst, over the years, Guyana has never ceased to trumpet its credentials as the ‘food basket’ of the Caribbean those noises were unable to stave off the revelation realized through last year’s survey conducted by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to the effect that nearly 4.1 million people or 57 percent of the population now face food insecurity.
