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This book represents a comprehensive analysis of food-import dependency in the Caribbean region. The study contributes to the existing body of knowledge related to food-import dependency and its impact on food and nutrition security, and evaluates the economic and social benefits of food self-reliance strategy aimed to improve domestic food production and food security. An important feature of this project is the analysis of the Caribbean food insecurity from a broader perspective, where food insecurity is much more than agriculture and food, as there are many other issues involved. In particular, the main research component of this project is to demonstrate that food self-reliance strategy in selected food sectors in the Caribbean countries can not only reduce food security risks but also provide important socio-economic multiplier effects (foreign exchange savings, job creation, tax generation).
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Combined annual food imports (source FAOSTAT)
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CARICOM (Caribbean Community and Common Market) is an organization made up of 15 Caribbean nations to promote economic integration among members. Members of CARICOM: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Dorodnykh, E. (2017). Introduction. In: Economic and Social Impacts of Food Self-Reliance in the Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50188-8_1
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