If concern over food insecurity in the Caribbean has triggered a region-wide initiative aimed at altering the region’s food security bona fides, a recent report emanating from the World Food Prograqmme points to the fact that the region’s challenge is a microcosm of a wider, and in some instance, a much more acute dilemma associated with food scarcity in other parts of the world. “Conflict, economic shocks, climate extremes and soaring fertilizer prices,” the WFP says, are combining to create what it asserts is “a food crisis of unprecedented proportions. The numbers are mind-boggling.” The WFP says that “as many as 783 million people are facing chronic hunger,” a circumstance in the face of which the global organization says we have a choice to either “act now to save lives and invest in solutions that secure food security, stability and peace for all, or see people around the world facing rising hunger.”