This is the research article, "Economic Shock, Coping Strategies, and COVID-19: Exploring Food System Resilience with Rural Workers in Grenada" in Caribbean Conjectures Volume 1, Issues 1 and 2.

Focusing primarily on the challenges of food (in)security and economic shock, this article offers insight into the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the island of Grenada from various stakeholders including farmers, fisherfolk, and rural workers. The piece also details the strategies employed by community members to cope with the pandemic’s multiple deleterious upshots. More specifically, via participatory action research and an exploratory rapid response pilot project provoked by coronavirus, we sought to discover how small island Caribbean governments can better assist people in marginalised agrarian communities whose lives were severely disrupted by the pandemic and subsequent lockdown and curfew measures. By prioritising the experiences of working-class food producers and wage labourers, the article identifies both policies that need to be (re)visited and potential solutions so that the type of crisis prompted by the coronavirus outbreak is less likely to shock the island’s economy and food system again. We also aim to contribute to scholarship on how small island states in the Caribbean can better assist people in

1) accessing immediate material needs in times of crisis;
2) securing food, nutrition, income, and daily life essentials;
3) building more sustainable and resilient food systems

Ultimately, then, this piece seeks to amplify the voices of rural workers who are frequently overlooked in development of economic policy.