The research team from the Household Nutrition Security Project is gathering information on the food system, from people at various stages of the food chain, in St. Kitts and Nevis, Jamaica and St, Vincent and the Grenadines. Researcher, Leonor Guariguata, explains how the team is making sense of all the information gathered from the Household […]

When you eat local does it automatically mean it’s healthy? What drives food choices in the region? These are some of the questions the new Food and Nutrition project is structured to investigate in Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis and St. Vincent. Dr. Madhuvanti “Maddy” Murphy is the Qualitative Lead for the Food and Nutrition […]

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), supported by the new IDRC funded, UWI led project, Household Nutrition Security project, is looking at the revision of the curriculum of some subjects to include more content about Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors. Learn more from the principal investigator with the Improving Household Nutrition Security and Public Health […]

Hear a perspective on the impact of marketing of unhealthy food to children from principal investigator with the Improving Household Nutrition Security and Public Health in CARICOM (FaN) project, Professor Alafia Samuels.

Regional food import bills and the cost of inputs in agriculture are skyrocketing and there is a shift from local food production to growing for export. This from Principal Investigator with the Improving Household Nutrition Security and Public Health in CARICOM (FaN) project, Professor Alafia Samuels, who also recently spoke to regional agriculture policy makers and technocrats […]

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), supported by the new IDRC funded, UWI led project, Improving Household Nutrition Security and Public Health in CARICOM (FaN), is in the process of revising the curriculum of some subjects to include more content about Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) and their risk factors. According to Principal Investigator of the project, Prof. […]

With regional food import bills and the cost of inputs in agriculture skyrocketing and a shift from local food production to growing for export, it is difficult to say if progress has been made in agriculture over the past ten years. This from Principal Investigator with the Improving Household Nutrition Security and Public Health in […]

As featured in the June FaN bulletin, the project was discussed by Prof T. Alafia Samuels, Mrs. Latoya M. Duncan and Dr. Waneisha Jones on a local radio station in St. Kitts – ZIZ Broadcasting Corporation. On the radio show ‘Working for You’, hosted by Mr. Lesroy Williams, they discussed NCDs, their varied impacts, strategies […]

Jamaica Observer – June 10, 2018. “Pork is red meat, people!” That was the message from Professor Alafia Samuels, director, George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre at The University of the West Indies in Barbados, as she warned those in attendance at the opening ceremony for the Medical Association of Jamaica’s 2018 Symposium Jamaica Pegasus […]

Jamaica Observer – June 08, 2018. The Government has taken the sensible approach in giving at least six months’ notice that it will, starting in January 2019, enforce restrictions on the use of sugary drinks in the diets of students and public health patients as part of efforts to combat growing obesity in the country. Health […]