With the Caribbean now focused on positioning its agricultural sector to accomplish the goal of reducing extra-regional food imports by 25% by 2025, the recent Guyana Agri-Investment Forum and Expo staged at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre has attracted a fair measure of attention across the region, never mind the fact that, perhaps understandably, skeptics continue to take furtive glances backwards at the succession of ‘false starts’ which the region has had to endure in seeking to fix its food security limitations..
It would appear, however, that a new sense of urgency on the food security issues has been sparked by the May 19-21 forum in Guyana and shortly thereafter, the May 28-29 Barbados National Agricultural Exhibition.