Global Voices Online

Trinidad & Tobago: Urban Farming

Monday, October 6th, 2008 @ 12:52 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Trinidad & Tobago
Topics:: Ideas, Development, Economics, Environment, Food, Agriculture
Languages:: English

“Like most countries in the world we are victim to the growing global food crisis. As an oil-producing nation our agricultural sector has been neglected and scorned for so long, that we now find ourselves unable to provide adequately for ourselves, even though we have the land, resources and know-how”: TriniGourmet.com thinks that urban farming could be “a small-scale solution to a full-scale problem”.

Posted by Janine Mendes-Franco

Print Version

One Response to
“Trinidad & Tobago: Urban Farming”

October 26th, 2008 at 15:24 pm
Beverley Mitchell:
1
I think that like here in the USA the government may do well to use some of its surplus oil money to propose and sponsor a subsidy program spanning all sector of agriculture in T&T. Without a concerted effort by the government, including subsidies in the early years of the program there will not be an effective use of resources. There need to be planning and maybe virtual compartment as to what is farmed where, to avoid too much of one thing and too little of another.

Join the conversation

Recent Links also in Americas

“With the love nest located in the parents’ house and with a salary that’s not enough to buy any durable or transferable goods, the signed paper and legal stamp that attest to the marriage are of little importance”: Generation Y says that Cubans are experiencing “a loss of the sense of the sanctity of marriage.”

“Child abuse and neglect is no less a serious and widespread problem in Anguilla than it is in the Cayman Islands”: Corruption-free Anguilla praises the efforts of a Caymanian woman who is asking that the government implement the recommendations of a report linked to the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child.

“Growing up I was made to believe that roast breadfruit and saltfish was the national dish of St Vincent and the Grenadines”: Abeni says that local culinary fare is facing some competition.