Trinidad's growing problem of food security 

I hardly watch RU-vid videos to the end, but this was definitely worth it. The content was engaging, educational and eye-opening, I hope your channel gets more traction. Keep up the good work!

Excellent work young man. Keep exposing and educating. Missed you for a while. Happy you are back 👍🏾. God bless you too! 🙏🏽

Hi everyone God bless you all and God bless 🇹🇹& Tobago.

Great video once again James 👏 👍 👌

Dude you are such an inspiration, great work.

Where are you? We need some more 868 media videos please. You are the Lex Fridman of T&T!

Great video. Can you do one on Renewable energy. We also need to ensure that we are able to ensure our energy supply. Soon it will be pretty expensive to drill for oil.

Great video! A Trinidadian living in Georgia, USA!

Well done James

A great awareness video. Permit me to add that in addition to T&T being food insecure, there is also a strong preference for foreign foods. As simple as rice (our main carbohydrate food source), which our country is not self-sufficient in, we are seeing all sorts of different rice on the shelves indicating that there is high demand and change in taste preference. We are seeing peach, apricot, and blueberry baby foods on the shelves. The growing number of fast-food outlets through commercial and street-food bodies again suggests growing demand for convenient foods, much of which is imported. As mentioned, the nutrition of the food is a component of a nation being food secure. However, there is an imbalance in the food being produced locally and fully addressing the dietary needs of our nation. Locally, the food produced on larger scales addresses our vegetable needs, is highly perishable, and has limited processing ability to name a few. Attention is also required in the areas of holistically addressing Carbohydrates, protein, and fruits dietary needs and throwing those taste buds into local gear. Increasing production is only the beginning. Brainstorming with issues of demand, current supply, various processing technologies to increase shelf life and convenience, adjustments of tariffs as shelves transition to a higher local presence, self supplying and linkages to schools, national security, and hospital feeding programmes are other areas that can be highlighted.

Great James! Long time. Is good to see more of your work.

The quality of these videos is incredible 👏 well collected data and explanation.

brother, this is such a great and ture message, your message is beyound, incredible work, thanks for sharing light on such impotant that situation. love your work.

Great job! Have you archived your channel?

Keep it up king

I always appreciate the quality content you put out, keep it up brother.

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Thank you for what should be a blockbuster video. .. hope the public can grasp the need to help themselves and not wait until we are in dire straits to begin to help themselves...and the agriculturists can get some real assistance from law enforemen against predators who steals their produce...again thank you for the wonderful job. God bless❤❤

Very insightful and well-researched video. This type of content should be shown in secondary schools and universities across the country. This message should be of greatest concern to the youths of this nation. A complex problem such as this will take no less than about 20 years to solve. So it will be up to them to fix it. Especially when the oil money runs out.

Thanks for sharing.

Great Video! Excellent content and presentation! Now lets get started on solutions!

Excellent video keep up the good work.

Always impressed with the calibre of your work. Keep it up! 🖖🏾

This content is amazing. Done in the style of Vice News it is very much the future of journalism. It is well researched and presented. This social media with a conscience, which is increasingly a contradiction in terms.

awesome insights, thanks for sharing!

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The foreign companies are smart produce seeds whose crops don’t produce seeds so you have to keep buying and importing. Now why does UWI plant bio students make their own gmo seeds and sell it to Trinidad farmers?

So their destroying their environment to import food. This is sad.

There might be food on grocery shelves but how many could afford to buy this food?

What would you say about our high rate of obesity and lifestyle diseases?

Citizens are too dependent on governments period. All by design sadly.

Japan is the most advance industrial nation in the world yet they focus a lot on food production Trinidad and Tobago should learn from that

Great vid. I myself do enjoy eating food😎

Ask our crime mis leader an ah mis direction for d 1 percent an d advisor 128 oxford street an the false church they propgate

No problem Trinidad and Tobago is that nobody wants to plant anything again

Globalization and free trading practices have made food cheaper and readily available in most countries around the world. There are very few truly food secure nations on this planet due to the changing tastes and interdependencies that have come along with the aforementioned factors. It is near impossible for a tiny island like T&T to ever be fully food secure because, in addition to all of the challenges mentioned in this video, many of the inputs that go into our staple foods simply cannot be grown here due to climatic and other issues. I do think that we should produce a lot more of what we consume and incorporate more modern farming techniques into our local agricultural scene but anyone who thinks that we could grow 100% of the things that we eat, including the inputs that go into growing them, is selling themselves a dream. You also implied that the government should impose tariffs on imported items which would be a complete violation of the principles behind the World Trade Organization.

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Excellent video again. Contact me for any help.