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CARICOM Agriculture Donor ConferenceCROWNE PLAZA, PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 2 June 2007


TRANSFORMING CARICOM AGRICULTURETRANSFORMING CARICOM AGRICULTURE

CARICOM Agriculture Donor ConferenceCROWNE PLAZA TRINIDAD, PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 2 June 2007

CARICOM Agriculture Donor ConferenceCROWNE PLAZA TRINIDAD, PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 2 June 2007

Food Security and Sustainable DevelopmentFood Security and Sustainable Development

Ensuring Food Security and Rural Development in CARICOM


CARICOM Agriculture Donor ConferenceCROWNE PLAZA, PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 2 June 2007Food Security

• domestic production

• trade (import) capacity and regime

• food stocks

• poverty

• purchasing power

• transport and market infrastructure

• food distribution

• natural disasters

• price fluctuations

• policy risks

• economic factors

• care and feeding

• food safety & quality

• clean water

• health & sanitation

AvailabilityAccess and consumption Stability Utilisation

ProductionEnterprises

PovertyJob Creation

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Food Security and Sustainable DevelopmentFood Security and Sustainable Development

Challenges Facing CARICOMChallenges Facing CARICOM


• Import dependence

• Nutrition and food health related challenges

• Vulnerability of food supply system

• Safe Food - quality and standards





Caribbean Food Import Bill Summary 1999-2001 (excl.fish)

HS # Category Average (000) % of AverageTotal 1,824,376 100.00

4 Dairy prod; birds 203,560 11.922 Meat 186,635 10.93

22 Beverages 186,251 10.9110 Cereals 158,983 9.3121 Misc edible preps 153,968 9.0219 Prep.of cereal 131,477 7.7020 Prep of veg, 112,443 6.5917 Sugars 106,424 6.23

7 Edible veg/roots 96,096 5.6316 Prep meat/ fish 88,075 5.1615 Animal/veg fats 78,639 4.6123 Food residues 78,635 4.6111 Prod.mill.indust 66,237 3.88

8 Edible fruit/nuts 43,850 2.57

Import dependence

< 5% - Barbados, Bahamas, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago,St. Vincent & the Grenadines

< 30% - Cuba

< 40% - Haiti, DR

> 70% - Belize

> 100% - Guyana, Suriname

Cereals Self-Sufficiency Ratio



CARICOM Agriculture Donor ConferenceCROWNE PLAZA,, PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 2 June 2007

CARICOM Agriculture Donor ConferenceCROWNE PLAZA,, PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 2 June 2007

Food supply system vulnerability

• Natural/environmental risks – hurricanes, floods, droughts…

• Price shocks and global market changes

• Dependence on imported inputs

• Age of farming population

• SPS systems weakness

•Inability to keep up with standards as lifestyle changes






• Food supply system vulnerability

Caribbean Agricultural Trade Trends

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Increased Food Health Related Concerns

Decreased Nutritional Status of Vulnerable Groups

Nutritionally Appropriate Foods - too expensive

Knowledge related to making healthy food choices







Countries 1969-1971 1979-1981 1990-1992 1995-19972001-2003 provisional

2002-2004 preliminary

Bahamas 7 12 9 14 7 8Barbados 3 <2.5 <2.5 3 <2.5 <2.5Belize 17 4 7 6 5 4Dominica 42 27 4 7 8 8Dominican Republic 40 25 27 26 27 29Grenada 28 28 9 7 7 7Guyana 19 13 21 12 9 8Haiti 54 48 65 59 47 46J amaica 12 10 14 11 10 9Saint Kitts and Nevis 47 26 13 19 11 10Saint Lucia 34 19 8 7 5 5Saint Vincent/Grenadines 19 14 22 27 12 10Suriname 23 18 13 10 10 8Trinidad and Tobago 16 6 13 15 11 10Source: FAOSTAT, 2006

Table 7: Prevalence of undernourishment in total population (%)







• Food safety, quality and standards

Limited Capacity for Monitoring and Implementing Food Safety Systems and Infrastructure

Inadequate Training of Community and Commercial Food Handlers

Modernisation of Legislation and user knowledge of food regulations






• Sustainable development

Pursuit of Caribbean brands and unique product characteristics

Employing sustainable development practices Creating livelihood systems

Aim at cross border production and marketing linkages – capitalize on different comparative advantages across the region. Some potential products and for which there are proposals in the package:

West Indian Sea Island Cotton Jamaican Blue Mountain CoffeePepper sauceA range of exotic Caribbean fruits, herbs and spices





Food Security Interventions – Up-scaled Regional Program for Food SecurityFood Security Interventions – Up-scaled Regional Program for Food Security


Goal and ObjectivesGoal and Objectives

Reduce food insecurity in the CARICOM/CARIFORUM countries

• Strengthen food, agricultural production, marketing systems Strengthen food, agricultural production, marketing systems and enterprises and enterprises

• Improve the capacity and policies for managing key threats to Improve the capacity and policies for managing key threats to food security food security

• Promote the consumption of safe and nutritious foodPromote the consumption of safe and nutritious food

Strengthen institutional capacity for ensuring food security Strengthen institutional capacity for ensuring food security (across all areas)(across all areas)



Proposed Upscaled Regional Program for Food Proposed Upscaled Regional Program for Food Security Security

National Projects _Regional Level –

•National projects may be funded independently

•Regional project support national projects in the thrustfor food security

Intervention

Strengthen agricultural production, marketing systems and enterprises and building institutional capacity to support their development

Improve the capacity of policy and program frameworks for managing key threats to food security

To improve human and agricultural health and food safety systems

Project Management



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