With the Caribbean seemingly having ‘gone quiet’ following a period of energetic assertiveness about a region-wide Food Security Plan to push back concerns voiced at the level of various UN food-related agencies regarding the region’s seeming diminishing food sufficiency bona fides, it would appear that, for the time being, at least, some member countries of the regional grouping are seeking to take more direct responsibility for their own food self-sufficiency.
The October 9 issue of the Trinidad Guardian reported that local farmers may be looking to their own domestic efforts to revitalize their agriculture sector even as the broader farm production regime promised under the Plan appears, seemingly, to have slowed down considerably. Perhaps, the most pointed example of a stall in the process has been the protracted information blackout on the creation of a Regional Food Security Terminal, a facility designed to serve as a storehouse from which to effect emergency food relief efforts in times of crisis.