So animated has the region become by the challenge associated with finding ways through which it can enhance its food security, that it appears willing to embrace any initiative that appears to be headed in that direction. While not a great deal has occurred since the January launch of the US$5.3 million Caribbean Agricultural Productivity Improvement Activity (CAPA) – alongside other undertakings – in terms of information, not a great deal too has been heard of the undertaking since its launch by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The particular stated objective of the CAIPA undertaking is to increase food security efforts while strengthening farmers’ livelihoods, undertakings that bear a striking resemblance to previous utterances on the issue of Caribbean food security. CAPA says that the envisaged US$5.3 million project will take aim at providing various forms of support for farmers seeking to increase the production of fruit and vegetables and to create linkages between producers and consumers, undertakings that have been repeated here in the region with monotonous regularity over time.