30th West Indies Agricultural Economics Conference, June 30-July 6, 2013, Port‐ of‐Spain, Trinidad, West Indies

Tourism has been the second highest employment generator in Saint Lucia in the aftermath of the downturn of the Banana industry in 1999. Coastal livelihoods have now shif [...]

The enhancement of food quality is one of the major areas of concern for those parties pursing higher levels of food security. It is because of this that nations around t [...]

The consequences of global food and nutrition insecurity, for example, high and fluctuating food prices would have had an impact on individual countries worldwide. This v [...]

Educating youth on the relevance of agriculture to their daily lives is imperative to food security, as these future adults will be faced with land use decisions which ca [...]

Root and tuber crops have one of the highest potential for value-added development as well as capacity for addressing the food and nutrition security needs in the CARICOM [...]

The economy of Antigua and Barbuda, a small island developing state, has suffered a number of setbacks in the past four years. The global economic downturn, the collapse [...]

The development of genetically modified foods (GMFs) has led to consumer concern about food safety and environmental protection. The objective of this study was to determ [...]

Smallholder farms in The Bahamas generally produce as much as they can to sell to the Produce Exchange and other local markets. Much of the produce grown is of inconsiste [...]

The Bahamas has depended on the dominance of one traditional sector, tourism combined with the lack of economic innovation and the inability to maintain domestic demand f [...]

Cocoa prices are known to be volatile and this volatility has been known to affect the cocoa industry. This paper first examines the volatility of the international cocoa [...]