By Ekaterina Dorodnykh
This ebook offers a multilayered research of nutrients import dependency and its impression on meals safety within the Caribbean area. The learn analyses the most influence of alternate liberalization within the Caribbean in the WTO framework and major coverage mechanisms to help family nutrition creation with a view to lessen meals import dependency. in addition, the writer evaluates monetary and social advantages of nutrition self-sufficiency as a technique aimed to enhance family nutrition creation by means of elevated availability of in the community produced nutrition products.
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1007/978-3-319-50188-8_4 35 36 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF FOOD SELF-RELIANCE IN THE CARIBBEAN production, especially in the context of further agriculture liberalization under the WTO framework. The concept of food self-sufficiency should be distinguished from the concept of food self-reliance as food self-sufficiency implies satisfaction of domestic food needs by domestic production with minimization of food-trade dependency. Meanwhile, food self-reliance implies a strategy which is based on both the domestic food production and the capacity to import food products.
In fact, according to FAO (1999), the concept of food self-sufficiency is generally taken to mean the extent to which a country can satisfy its food needs from its own domestic production. However, as Clap (2015) reports, such an extreme policy stance does not apply in practice today as there are no countries that practice completely free trade and rely on foreign markets for 100 per cent of their food. Furthermore, as part of food self-sufficiency strategy, there is a raise of interest in the concept of ‘food sovereignty’ as a response to the ‘unjust logic of the globalized food system’ (Lee 2007).
In fact, the 9 Fig. ) 19 9 1 3– 99 4 1 2– 99 3 1 1– 99 2 99 1 0– 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 19 Per cent 32 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF FOOD SELF-RELIANCE IN THE CARIBBEAN 3 IMPORT DEPENDENCY, AND FOOD AND NUTRITIONAL SECURITY . . 33 Caribbean SIDS depend on trade for their food security and participate minimally in world trade. In this regard, food security options and outcomes for some SIDS have been negatively affected by the changing international environment, partly as result of multilateral and bilateral trade and development agencies reforms (FAO 2004).