CARICOM focusses on food security

CARICOM governments are devising new strategies that will focus more on food sovereignty rather than on food security as a result of recent international crises.



The Director of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), Dr. Arlington Chesney, says the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001 resulting in a ban on air travel triggered a chicken meat shortage in some parts of the region.



He says regional agriculture ministers meeting in Grenada this week are undertaking a comprehensive review of the sector in a bid to raise its profile and contribution to economies.



This would include the change of policy from efforts to achieve food security to food sovereignty.