While the Caribbean island of Grenada has shown no indication that it wishes to separate itself from the ongoing Caribbean-wide regional food security initiative, the CARICOM member country has been taking initiatives which suggest that, quite apart from its commitment to the wider regional food security undertaking, its own home-grown initiatives to help shore up the island’s food security bona fides may well do the island a power of good in the final analysis.
The Caribbean as a whole may have responded to concerns raised at the levels of various international organizations regarding the fragility of the region’s overall food security bona fides, however, it has to be said that while regional governments appears to have gotten out of the blocks fairly smartly, the pace would appear to have slowed considerably at the junction of the establishment of a Regional Food Security Terminal. While the Government of Grenada has traditionally vested in its Ministry of Agriculture responsibility for food security, its capacity for food production, the vigor of the country’s agriculture sector notwithstanding, still does not, at this stage, get the island altogether over the line insofar as its food security bona fides are concerned.