CARICOM: Food & Nutrition Security
The research platform rests on integrating activities within three fundamental pillars (themes) to achieve project goals; environmental sustainability and gender equality cut across activities of the three research themes:
Activities
- Enhanced food availability, access, safety and utilization
- Food and market systems development
- Jagdeo Initiative
- Caribbean Commission on Health and Development
Project Research Activities
| Project Themes | Research Activities | Guyana | Trinidad and Tobago | St. Lucia | St. Kitts and Nevis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -- | -- | Black Bush Polder/Parika | Cunipia | Marquis/Black Bay | Stapleton/Mansion |
| Community Nutrition & Health | Menu modification studies in school lunches | n/a | x | n/a | x |
| Nutrition education | n/a | x | n/a | x | |
| Socioeconomics and Governance | Focus Groups | x | x | x | x |
| Behavioural economics/food choice experiments | x (with farmers) |
x (in schools) |
n/a | n/a | |
| Post harvest & food safety | x | x | x | x | |
| Water and land resources | Drip irrigation for food crops | x | x | x | x |
| Protected agriculture | n/a | x | x | x | |
| Open field cropping systems | x | x | x | x | |
| Silage based ruminant production | n/a | n/a | n/a | x |
