Georgetown: A United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization study shows that, with the exception of Guyana, Belize and St Kitts and Nevis in the English-speaking Caribbean, no country has the required land mass to achieve 100 per cent food security.
Leading Caribbean agriculturist Dr Arlington Chesney, executive director of the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), has highlighted the opportunities the Caribbean's mainland territories such as Guyana, Suriname and Belize offer in the matter of food security.
“The region has set itself a target of 25 per cent food and nutrition security by 2015. But we can't do that as individual countries," Chesney said.
Guyana and Trinidad has partnered for the creation of a food-security facility with hopes of stimulating agricultural and livestock production, reducing dependence on foreign food imports, and stimulating, regionally, the drive for food security in CARICOM.
Trinidad and Guyana's partnership is, therefore, being hailed as "good news" for farming communities, commercial sectors as well as consumers with a passion for Caribbean commodities.
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