Chief executive officer and managing director of the Food Hygiene Bureau (FHB), Dr Marva Hewitt, is leading efforts to strengthen Jamaica’s food security and food sovereignty amid concerns about a decline in both areas in recent years. The FHB will host its 10th International Conference on Food Security and Sovereignty on September 9 and 10 at the Louis Grant Conference Centre at Sandals Dunn’s River...
This year’s conference comes against the backdrop of worsening food insecurity in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. Organisers hope it will sharpen focus on an issue highlighted in a United Nations (UN) report in 2022.
That report found a sharp increase in food insecurity, with an estimated 2.8 million people, or nearly 40 per cent of the English-speaking Caribbean’s population, facing food insecurity. The figure represented an increase of one million people, or 72 per cent, compared with the findings of the 2020 report.
