The CARICOM Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Explained - Regional Food & Nutrition Security Policy - Action Plan.
In December 2010, the FAO Global Food Price Index surpassed the previous high level reached in 2008 which had led to food riots and social instability in many countries. This is the context in which the CARICOM Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy (RFNSP) has been prepared. The RFNSP was endorsed in Grenada at the special meeting of the CARICOM Council on Trade and Economic Development-COTED (Agriculture) in October 2010. This milestone was reached through an innovative policy design process looking at practical issues and problems, in which Member States and regional technical institutions collaborated with the CARICOM Secretariat (CCS), supported by the FAO, in a Technical Working Group (TWG) to formulate the RFNSP.
This initiative comes in response to the Liliendaal Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security (July 2009) in which Member States reaffirmed a commitment to achieve Food and Nutrition Security (FNS). FNS is a goal of the Common Agricultural Policy from the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, Article 56.1.b.
