Topic: food insecurity

Cayman’s charitable sector didn’t need the census to tell them that hundreds of families are suffering from ‘food insecurity’.

Extending free school meals programmes through the summer holidays could help ease food insecurity for children in Cayman, charity leaders believe.

Population growth numbers, revealed by the final 2021 census results, indicate that Cayman needs to move away from unplanned and unrestrained growth, Premier Wayne Panton said at a press conference on Thursday, 28 July.

A Cayman Islands-based company is developing technology to target food insecurity in so-called food deserts – urban areas that have no access to healthy foods at affordable prices.