The University of the West Indies Press
JCH Vol 57 No. 1 | Women and Food Production: Trinidad’s Response in World War II
Karen E. Eccles
JCH Vol 57 No. 1 | Women and Food Production: Trinidad’s Response in World War II
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This article highlights mostly the work of the white upper, black, mixed and Indian middle-class women, through mostly an organization known as the Women’s Voluntary Services (WVS) in the colony’s “Grow More Food Campaign”. This was an official government programme re-enacted from World War I, and executed to ease the burdens of severe shortages, inflation and dependency in a time when food supplies globally were disrupted. The prominence and status of the women who became involved in the programme meant that their activities were highly publicized positively, which influenced the local population, garnering the support for a major government initiative in a time of turmoil. The newspapers of the time reveal that the government expressed public gratitude, but since then they have not been adequately recognized or discussed in published writings.

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English
ISBN
JCH.2023.5701.A002
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Women and Food Production: Trinidad’s Response in World War II | by Karen E. Eccles
Introduction
Introduction
Grow More Food Campaign
Government Enact Legislation
Women Mobilize for Food Production
The Women’s Voluntary Services (WVS)
Conclusion
Notes
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