Vincentians are being encouraged to explore new ways to grow food to maximize small spaces.

This encouragement has come from United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization FAO National Correspondent to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Colleen Phillips.

In a recent interview with NBC Radio News, Dr. Phillips said using methods that maximize gardening space, farmers reduce resource consumption, such as water, to ensure households are fed sustainably.

She added that this can play a significant role in ensuring food security in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

"What we are looking at is promoting the different models of food growing in your backyard, utilising the walls, utilising the apparatus and that sort of things. This year for us in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines we are promoting the concept of sustainable agriculture in that we are trying to better utilise limited space to grow food and ensure that everybody has access to healthy food that they grow. We know for sure that we have to strengthen the local food systems you know that food gets to the consumer, what better way to ensure that we teach people to grow what they eat and eat what they grow."

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization FAO National Correspondent to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Colleen Phillips.

SOURCE: National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC Radio)