End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

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Zero Hunger
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zero-hunger
SDG Goal Number
2

Science and Technology

CARICOM’s science and technology work promotes innovation capacity and technological resilience, focusing on regional coordination that helps Member States translate research, standards, and emerging technologies into practical development outcomes. The programme’s logic is to treat S&T as cross-cutting infrastructure for competitiveness—supporting productivity in priority sectors and strengthening regional problem-solving capability.

Agricultural Development

Agricultural development strengthens regional food systems by supporting coordinated approaches to production, resilience, and agri-food transformation, especially under climate and external-shock pressures. The programme aligns food security priorities with regional economic recovery and social resilience objectives, reinforcing agriculture’s role in livelihoods and intra-regional supply.

The Caribbean Real-Time Food Security Monitoring Dashboard

The Caribbean Real-Time Food Security Monitoring Dashboard provides an overview of the Caribbean’s evolving food security situation in real time. Ten countries have been prioritized in the first phase: Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago. Data is collected on a daily basis, via call centres, interviewing 1,080 households every three months.

Promoting Agribusiness in the CSME

The Agribusiness Development Programme was implemented as a sub-project within the larger Caribbean Integration Support Programme (CISP), funded under the 9th replenishment of the European Development Fund (EDF). The project aimed at developing a regional agribusiness strategy with the following main components