In a world increasingly reliant on international food trade, Guyana stands out as a remarkable exception. This small South American nation has achieved what no other country in the world has managed: complete food self-sufficiency across all major food categories. According to groundbreaking research published in Nature Food in June…
China & Vietnam came closest to Guyana in the study.
Guyana is such a weird country to me, I briefly had a bit of a fixation on it.
It’s population is mostly Indian, but also mostly Christian, and almost entirely lives in the capital while the rest of the country is jungle. If you google street view the capital city of Georgetown it looks like a cross between New Orleans and a backwater British outpost in India. It’s simultaneously very LATAM and not LATAM at all.
Guyana is such a weird country to me, I briefly had a bit of a fixation on it.
It’s population is mostly Indian, but also mostly Christian, and almost entirely lives in the capital while the rest of the country is jungle. If you google street view the capital city of Georgetown it looks like a cross between New Orleans and a backwater British outpost in India. It’s simultaneously very LATAM and not LATAM at all.
And they have a very Caribbean style accent. It’s interesting what colonialism did to that region, culturally speaking at least.