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The article focuses on a Caribbean case study of water resources and food security. It shows the need for policymakers to come to terms with the realities of virtual water imports and the impending food insecurity, and thereby give high priority to the expansion and improvement of the irrigation infrastructure in the contemporary planning of the island's water resources. The neglect of agriculture in Trinidad has deep historical roots, which go back to the days of the transatlantic slave trade and the sugar cane plantations between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. It may also be noted that the island's topography, in its central and southwestern plains, permits mechanized rice production.