Reports on a study aimed at assessing the impact of food price and subsidy policies and practices and trade regimes on food production, marketing, food consumption, and nutritional status in Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Proposes that food production, food imports and nutrition are linked through a series of markets whose structural features determine the behaviour of participants in the system and the end results. Analyses the total food system in Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines with emphasis on the production, marketing, and food consumption and nutrition subsystems.