Transportation a major challenge to food Security through CARICOM- Hon Fraser
He was at the time addressing a press engagement on February 28, 2025, and reasoned that traditional methods of importation via wooden schooners were no longer sustainable, prompting discussions on alternative shipping solutions.
"As you would know, transportation is one of our greatest issues; Getting goods from the CARICOM (Caribbean Community) countries as they have been doing in the past was coming on those wooden schooners."
Feasibility study
To address this, he revealed that discussions have been taking place, including the involvement of a consultant, to explore the feasibility of fast ferries capable of transporting containers of goods efficiently between islands.
"One of the discussions that they have been having, they even had a consultant there, was on transportation, looking into fast ferries that can carry containers of goods at a rapid speed—moving goods between islands, not just people, containers, vehicles, people between islands.”
As such, he posits, “I would imagine that if their produce becomes attractive enough to us, our market becomes attractive enough for their produce, we will be a part of that. It’s not going to happen tomorrow, but down the road, it's a high possibility that that will take place."
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I watched and listened to him over the years … Is now he knows he needs CARICOM
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Moreover, food insecurity is a critical issue in the Anglophone region with countries importing 60-80% of their food. Much of the imported food is highly processed and laden with salt, fat, sugar, calories, etc. Further, there is an indifference in the region to working in agriculture, for the experience of slavery and colonialism, coupled with the transition from subsistence agriculture to services. The estimated region food import bill in 2021 was $9B. CARICOM vision: 25 for 2025 is intended to reduce the regional food import bill by 25% in 2025. Will the goal be realized.
Reducing the food import bill will 1) improved food insecurity, 2) lower unemployment, 3) increase money circulation in the region’s economy,creating a multiplier effect in the economy(s), 4) creating healthier foods, etc.
Moreover, a holistic effort is needed in the region to reduce the food import bill . This effort will require modernizing the producing, , marketing, distributing, transporting , financing etc of agriculture in the region.