Excerpts from the Executive Summary: This study sought to evaluate the impact of food price and subsidy policies and practices and trade regime on food production, marketing, food consumption and nutrition. The study was undertaken to provide a better understanding of the ways in which food price policies and practices affect various constituents in the food and nutrition system and provide a basis for modifying current programmes or introducing new ones to improve the performance of the food and nutrition system. The specific objectives of the study were: 1. To develop criteria against which food policies and programmes (particularly food price and subsidy policies and practices) could be assessed in terms of their economic and nutritional effects. 2. Identify and describe the food policies and programmes in Antigua and St. Vincent during the sixties to the present time. 3. Measure and analyse the effects of these policies and programmes on food production, imports and consumption during the same period. 4. Analyse the structure, conduct and performance of agricultural marketing systems. 5. Develop and refine a methodology for assessing the impact of food price and subsidy policies and food marketing systems on nutrition. 6. Improve the performance of the food and nutrition system.