A ma­jor push to re­duce food waste could sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­er Trinidad and To­ba­go’s food im­port bill and bol­ster na­tion­al self-sus­tain­abil­i­ty, ac­cord­ing to Louisea John-Browne, founder of In­crease Kids Agro World (IKAW).

As geopo­lit­i­cal con­cerns re­fo­cus at­ten­tion on re­gion­al food se­cu­ri­ty, John-Browne and her team are aim­ing to ex­pand their ef­forts to com­bat food waste across T&T and the wider Caribbean.

In the com­ing weeks, she will bring strate­gies learned in the Unit­ed States to class­rooms in South Trinidad to com­mem­o­rate In­ter­na­tion­al Com­post Aware­ness Week.