PROFILE OF SMALL FARMERS IN THE CARIBBEAN REGION

The reliability and use potential of the data is evaluated, but this is not intended to be an analysis of the information provided. Information resources are the 1970 population census of the Commonwealth Caribbean, agricultural censuses (1971-75), and a series of small-farmer surveys in various Caribbean locations. Topics include: (1) farm household characteristics, (2) level of living indicators (income and income distribution, unemployment and underemployment, education, housing, water supply and toilet facilities, electricity, infant mortality, life expectancy, and nutrition), (3) land and land distribution, (4) production and production technology (crops and livestock, machinery, fertilizers and chemicals, family and hired labor), and (5) government service to small farmers.