Addressing Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Caribbean Through Domestic Smallholder Farming System Innovation

Ville, Arlette Saint; Phillip, L. E.; Hickey, Gordon M.

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-8256-7_9

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“…According to the United Nations (2020) , latin America and the Caribbean has seen an almost three-fold rise in the number of people requiring food assistance. As smallholder farmers are key actors in addressing the food and nutrition insecurity challenges facing the Caribbean Community, while also minimizing the ecological footprint of food production systems ( Saint Ville et al, 2015 ), the response to the COVID-19 pandemic should therefore go beyond short-term emergency measures to embrace an entirely new set of health, economic, social and agricultural policies. To face the crisis, regional economic integration could be an efficient option to support productive diversification, economic resilience, and regional cooperation in financing research, science and technology ( United Nations, 2020 ).…”

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“…To accompany this transition, new institutions need to emerge to help a diversity of farmers innovate to adapt to the new challenges and objectives of Caribbean agriculture and food systems. In this sense, Saint Ville et al (2015) argue for a different approach to agricultural development in the Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean that draws primarily on socioecological resilience and agricultural innovation systems frameworks. Given the urgent issues of health and food security in the region, supporting the development of local agriculture in an agro-ecological approach to meet the nutritional needs of Caribbean populations is a major challenge.…”

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Immediate impacts of COVID-19 crisis on agricultural and food systems in the Caribbean

Blazy

Causeret

Guyader

2021

Agricultural Systems

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Immediate impacts of COVID-19 crisis on agricultural and food systems in the Caribbean

Blazy

Causeret

Guyader

2021

Agricultural Systems

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“…The low uptake of ecological sustainable practices was traced to low profits made by small farmers despite adopting such measures (Flemming et al, 2015). Small farmers require technical assistance over the long‐term as they are key actors in addressing the food and nutrition insecurity challenges facing Caribbean islands, while also minimizing the ecological footprint of food production systems (Saint Ville et al, 2015).…”

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Small Island Developing States in a post‐pandemic world: Challenges and opportunities for climate action

Foley

Moncada

Mycoo

et al. 2022

WIREs Climate Change

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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been impacted by and responded to COVID-19 in ways that give us clues about vulnerabilities under climate change, as well as pathways to resilience. Here, we reflect on some of these experiences drawing on case study examples from the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean SIDS, exploring how SIDS have responded to COVID-19 and considering the potential for coping mechanisms enacted for the pandemic to support long-term resilience to climate change. Island responses to the pandemic highlight both new directions, like tourist schemes that capitalize on the rise of remote working in Barbados and Mauritius, and reliance on tried and tested coping mechanisms, like bartering in Fiji. Some of the actions undertaken to respond to the pressures of the pandemic, such as visa schemes promoting "digital nomadism" and efforts to grow domestic food production, have climate resilience and equity dimensions that must be unpacked if their potential to contribute to more sustainable island futures is to be realized. Importantly, the diversity of contexts and experiences described here illustrates that there is no single "best" pathway to climate-resilient post-pandemic futures for SIDS. While the emerging rhetoric of COVID-19 recovery often speaks of "roadmaps," we argue that the journey towards a climate-resilient COVID-19 recovery for SIDS is likely to involve detours, as solutions emerge through innovation and experiment, and knowledge-sharing across the wider SIDS community.

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Nutrition fragility in isolation: Food insecurity in Small Island Developing States

Atzori,

Sonneveld,

Alfarra

et al. 2024

Food Sec.

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High reliance on food imports, unbalanced diets, limited cultivable land, scarce fresh water resources and remoteness are typical food security constraints for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Calls for evidence-based food policy interventions are, therefore, justified. Yet, SIDS studies on food security are often outdated, focus on one country and use exclusive data and dedicated methodologies that cannot be applied elsewhere. This study standardized its methodology to assess availability of food groups and micronutrients at a SIDS-wide level. We use the latest release from FAO’s harmonized Food Balance Sheets and improve actual intake by correcting for food waste and lower micronutrient thresholds for under-fives. We make results interpretable with geo-visualization techniques and infographics that map food group and micronutrient availability per country against required needs. A great share of countries (94%) fails to meet food group requirements; 43% does not meet the requirement of five or more of the eight food groups. None of the SIDS meet the required doses for micronutrients and only 14% meets requirements of 13 or 14 of the 15 micronutrients, yet, 31% of the SIDS misses 6 to 8 micronutrients. Overweight prevalence is closely correlated to food group availability while stunting can be largely explained by income level. The findings prioritize policy actions by identifying absence of dietary diversity. The approach is adequate and cost-efficient based on existing databases that are regularly updated. Timeliness and country coverage of SIDS in some international databases need serious improvement.

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Addressing Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Caribbean Through Domestic Smallholder Farming System Innovation

Cited by 3 publications

References 67 publications

Immediate impacts of COVID-19 crisis on agricultural and food systems in the Caribbean

Immediate impacts of COVID-19 crisis on agricultural and food systems in the Caribbean

Small Island Developing States in a post‐pandemic world: Challenges and opportunities for climate action

Nutrition fragility in isolation: Food insecurity in Small Island Developing States

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