Visser, BenjaminCarmona Báez, AntonioEchteld, ElisabethMijts, EricFaraclas, NicholasSevering, R.Echteld, ElisabethRutgers, WimDelgado, S.2024-08-262024-08-262024Visser, B., Carmona Baez, A., Echteld, E. & Mijts, E. (2023). Curaçao Food Security before and during COVID-19; evaluation of the island’s food Availability, Accessibility, and Stability. In Faraclas, N., Severing, R., Echteld, E., Rutgers, W. & Delgado, S. (eds.), Southern Entanglements: Southern Epistemologies, Southern Praxes and The Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Dutch Caribbean and Beyond, 71-88. University of Curaçao/University of Puerto Rico.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14473/142The purpose of this paper is to analyze Curaçao's food security system during times of COVID-19 through the lens of the six pillars of food security of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic did not, in itself, result in severe disruptions to Curaçao's food supply. Overall food mass flow changes did not fluctuate significantly between 2018 and 2021. Neither did prices fluctuate significantly. In 2021, the total costs of food imports on the wholesale side in Curaçao increased by ca. 50 million florins. The outcomes of this study demonstrate low levels of compliance with ‘Recommended Daily Intakes’ (RDI) in relation to the island’s food supply.enCuraçaoFood securityAvailabilityAccessibilityStabilityPrice fluctuationsRecommended daily intakeH2 Book chapter