• Regional Food Import Bills and the Cost of Inputs in Agriculture are Skyrocketing

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 at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture 2018, held in Barbados.