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Media important for promoting Caribbean food security

Oct 05, 2013 News

 

Efforts to utilize the media to highlight agriculture as an attractive sector for employment opportunities to advance food security in the Caribbean Region have been successful with vast improvements in coverage.
Wesley Gibbings, a Trinidadian journalist, said that the media has absolutely no choice than to be part of this phenomenon as faced with the reality of being unable to feed the Caribbean Region.
He chaired the opening session of the media workshop on Inclusive Evidence Based Coverage of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Caribbean at the Guyana International Conference Centre, yesterday.
He referred to Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago’s bilateral collaboration for the promotion of food security.
Gibbings emphasized said that for some time Governments have been bandying around a US$4B food import bill but he believes that amount has increased. Hence, Caribbean territories need to come out of their comfort zone.
As such, application of basic journalistic principles must be used to “wake and shake our communities”, he said.
The important role of the media in making the agriculture sector an attractive opportunity was also emphasized by Maurice Wilson of Caribbean Agriculture Research and Development Institute (CARDI).
He said the significant importance of the agriculture sector in the context of food, fiber and fuel is constantly underestimated. Though, many persons know about this there are those who appear to be unaware, lending to the relationship between journalism and agriculture.
Wilson urged the Caribbean media to highlight agriculture in an attractive manner using journalistic skills.
He recalled that at a meeting in Antigua last year a list of recommendations was made but sadly nothing has happened. Focus should be placed on understanding why those recommendations were not implemented since “some progress is better than no progress”.

 

 

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