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How Mayreau Island in the Grenadines is tackling food insecurity

Can scarcities and climate vulnerabilities offer us other ways of being and imagining? How are government-accessed funds, initiatives and projects being implemented and communicated to the public? How are these actions impacting community-based organisations and grassroots initiatives that have historically engaged in change-making work in their locales? Are there sufficient incubation projects accommodating habitat creation, ecological education, or invasive species management?

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Mayreau island is a cultural bastion where — despite challenges — community spirit is alive and adaptive

This is the first instalment of a two-part post under the Shared Island Stories initiative, supported by the School of Art History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, which explores ways in which to build collaborative tools to inform case studies in support of the project “Sacred Space and Social Memory: Interrogating Co-becoming in Community-Based Practices in the Grenadines and the Isle of Skye.” Funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) with project reference: EP/X023036/1. Many thanks to Janine Mendes Franco and Skye Hernandez for the editing assistance and publishing on Global Voices ‘The Bridge.’

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