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Food system transformation in the Caribbean: Challenges

Vulnerabilities but also unexploited opportunities

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 2055 2060 2065 2070 2075 2080 2085 2090 2095 2100 Population Projections Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Grenada Montserrat Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

1. Small size of economies

1. Demand side: size of domestic market 2. Supply side: diseconomies of scale

2. Geography

1. High risks – vulnerability to climate change 2. High transport/logistics costs

3. Economic structure

1. Relatively small and fragmented farms 2. Changing marketing channels with globalization of food industry 4. Opportunities 1. High level of imported fresh food products used in tourism (60%) 2. Moving up age to more attractive value segments, value addition 3. Collective action to overcome diseconomies of scale 4. Technology upgrading to overcome high cost of labor, inputs

Tourism’s Contribution to GDP

42.7

40.7

40.5

36.9

28.6

28.2

Antigua and Barbuda

Dominica Grenada St. Kitts and Nevis

St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines

April 15, 2021

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