{"id":152305,"date":"2022-05-27T07:53:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=152305"},"modified":"2022-05-27T07:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:53:42","slug":"sanders-commentary-at-last-faith-in-regionalisms-reignited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/sanders-commentary-at-last-faith-in-regionalisms-reignited\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders Commentary: At last faith in regionalisms reignited"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>

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The \u201cAgri-Investment Forum\u201d, held in Guyana from 19 to 21 May, was arguably the most successful engagement by CARICOM leaders in the last 15 years.<\/p>\n

The Forum was held amidst an enlarging global calamity that combines high prices for oil with shortages and record high prices for food and agricultural inputs such as fertilizers. Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, one of the world\u2019s six breadbasket regions, has pushed the world\u2019s food system, already damaged by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, into global crisis.<\/p>\n

In the weeks, leading up to the Forum, evidence of the predicament engulfing the Caribbean, had begun to focus the attention of governments.\u00a0\u00a0High prices of food products are threatening poorer and vulnerable communities\u00a0at a time when the economies of the majority of CARICOM countries are struggling to recover from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>

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On the eve of the Forum, a joint survey by the CARICOM Secretariat and World Food Programme estimated that severe food insecurity in the Caribbean had increased by 72 percent, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020.\u00a0\u00a0And the World Bank reported that the price of fertilizers has increased by as much as 178% between March 2021 and March 2022.<\/p>

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The cost of transporting goods, including agricultural products and inputs, has increased astronomically over the past year.\u00a0\u00a0The logistics industry is currently experiencing the highest constant peak in increased cost as shipping is disrupted.\u00a0\u00a0International transport prices look set to rise even more by 8 to 12 percent in the coming months.<\/p>\n

No one is escaping the effects.<\/p>

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All of this undoubtedly sends a shiver down the spines of governments.\u00a0\u00a0Many of them simply do not have the financial resources to support poor and vulnerable communities anymore.\u00a0\u00a0They depleted those resources through the pandemic when many economies shut down and unemployment soared.<\/p>\n

CARICOM governments and the private sector, particularly those companies that make profits on the importation of goods from outside the region, and who have acted to stifle competition from the products of CARICOM countries, bear more than a little responsibility for the region\u2019s current food insecurity.<\/p>

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For much of the last 15 years, CARICOM governments had \u201cpaused\u201d efforts to establish a Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME).\u00a0\u00a0Among the important things that suffered was a 2005 agreement to operationalize a \u201cFramework for the repositioning of Caribbean agriculture\u201d which came to be known as the \u201cJagdeo Initiative\u201d after Bharat Jagdeo, then President of Guyana, who spearheaded it.<\/p>

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When the \u201cJagdeo Initiative\u201d was agreed, but not implemented, in 2005, CARICOM\u2019s food import Bill was US$1.8 billion.\u00a0\u00a0At the end of 2021, the bill was more than US$5 billion.\u00a0\u00a0As Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, said at the formal opening of the Forum, \u201cOur region failed to implement the 2005 \u201cJagdeo Initiative\u201d, and, over the last 17 years, we have suffered for our inaction\u201d.<\/p>\n

The problem now is not only the high cost of imported food, but also that certain foodstuff, vital to Caribbean people, are in short supply.\u00a0\u00a0Very soon, food reserves in many developed countries will be severely diminished.\u00a0\u00a0This will undoubtedly lead to developed countries restricting exports to protect their own populations, resulting in more food shortages and higher prices in CARICOM countries.<\/p>\n

At the Forum, Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s Prime Minister, Keith Rowley, recalled that when vaccines were needed by every nation to save lives and control COVID-19, a few rich nations bought and hoarded more than 70 percent of the vaccine production.\u00a0\u00a0He warned, \u201cNobody is going to give us food when it is in short supply. We have to act now so that next time we would be in a better position.\u201d<\/p>\n

This crisis cries out for urgent attention that goes beyond words to practical measures. Therefore, it set the stage for the CARICOM leaders at the Forum in Guyana to take action that would upset the status quo and forge a pathway to meaningful integration of CARICOM\u2019s resources.<\/p>\n

There were two further ingredients that led to the Forum\u2019s action.\u00a0\u00a0The first was that a plan existed to tackle food insecurity.\u00a0\u00a0That plan was introduced at the March 2022 CARICOM Heads of Government meeting by Guyana\u2019s President Irfaan Ali.\u00a0\u00a0In the last two months with food shortages increasing and prices rising, the plan and its implementation assumed great relevance and urgency. The leaders at the Forum seized the moment and agreed on priority areas.<\/p>\n

In the Outcome Statement, the leaders committed to tackling food insecurity, removing tariffs on CARICOM goods, and establishing regional transportation to get regionally produced food to every country in the region.<\/p>\n

On food insecurity,\u00a0\u00a0President Ali will organize\u00a0an existing Ministerial Task Force to produce an implementation schedule for the plan he presented to his colleagues last March. The preparation of the plan will involve all the stakeholders in agricultural production.\u00a0\u00a0Regarding tariffs and non-tariff barriers that are imposed on CARICOM products, a Special Committee, headed by Barbados\u2019 Prime Minister Mia Mottley, will immediately prepare proposals, with time-bound deadlines, for eliminating such trade barriers.\u00a0\u00a0Should this happen, the \u201cpause\u201d on creating a Single Market might, at last, be released.<\/p>\n

The Outcome Statement said that the leaders recognized that the lack of adequate regional transportation by sea and air is an obstacle to the transportation of food within the region, and they are determined that it should be overcome within the shortest possible time.\u00a0\u00a0Again, the energetic and persuasive Ms. Mottley, has been charged with completing a proposal for establishing adequate and sustainable regional transportation by July.\u00a0\u00a0The help of the international donor community and multilateral development agencies will be sought to support this effort, with the Caribbean Development Bank playing a role in mobilizing international resources.<\/p>\n

There was another reason for the Forum\u2019s motivation and success – the passion of Guyana\u2019s President Irfaan Ali.\u00a0\u00a0Not only did he have a food plan ready, but he was also fervent in his determination to deliver it.\u00a0\u00a0His enthusiasm infected his colleagues and influenced the Forum\u2019s result to produce actionable proposals with firm deadlines for implementation.<\/p>\n

For those who were around in the late 1960s and 1970s when CARIFTA was created and CARICOM emerged, the atmosphere and results of the Guyana Forum rekindled a new faith in regionalism \u2013 and the hope that fidelity to it will prevail.<\/p>\n

Responses and previous commentaries:\u00a0www.sirronaldsanders.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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