‘We can’t keep importing everything’: Inside Saint Lucia’s fight for food security

‘We can’t keep importing everything’: Inside Saint Lucia’s fight for food security

In the Caribbean, where research reports and policy documents show that most nations import over 80 percent of their food, grocery bills are a constant source of collective anxiety. Inflation has only deepened this burden. Supply chain disruptions, from pandemics and port closures to wars and climate disasters, have sent food prices soaring, laying bare the region’s vulnerability to global market shocks. Efforts to reverse this trend have fallen…