Tham khảo tài liệu 'food production approaches, challenges and tasks part 3', khoa học tự nhiên, công nghệ sinh học phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Issues in Caribbean Food Security Building Capacity in Local Food Production Systems 27 Fig. 1. A farmer transport farm inputs to a farm plot on a mule. Despite the importance of agriculture and the small-scale food production sector in particular Jamaica like almost every country in the CARICOM region except perhaps Guyana has seen dramatic reduction in food output and has become a net importer of food. In his welcoming remarks to a forum on agriculture food production and food security in the Caribbean and Pacific regions in 2005 CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington pointed out that up to the mid-1980s the CARICOM region was a net exporter of food but had since become a net importer of food. Food insecurity in Jamaica and the wider CARICOM with the exception of Haiti tends to be under stated. It is often construed simply in terms of availability and complacency exists because again with the exception of Haiti the dramatic and sensationalized incidents of hunger often seen in parts of SubSaharan Africa and Asia are largely unknown in the region. However it is now acknowledged that the region including Jamaica faces urgent and significant food security challenges. Jamaica like the rest of the CARICOM has been experiencing declining agricultural productivity decreasing earnings from traditional export crops a high and growing dependence on imported food increasing levels of poverty and increases in diet-related diseases like diabetes hypertension and obesity. The World Food Summit WFS set a goal of reducing global hunger by 50 percent by 2015. To this end the FAO established a Trust Fund for Food Security and Food Safety to be used to strengthen and sustain projects within the FAO Special Program for Food Security SPFS . The increasing concerns about food security in the Caribbean prompted the CARIFORUM to ask the FAO to prepare a CARIFORUM Regional Special Programme for Food Security CRSPFS under the SPFS. The original deadline of 2007 was later extended to .
