Yap Summit Community Sector - Yap State Government

YAP STATE GOVERNMENT
CONSUMERS’ CHOICES
Unsustainable Consumers’ Choices
The Consumer Price Index -CPI- that shows how people decide and chose to spend their money responding to price
changes, highlights that the two main areas of households’ expenditure are food and fuel. Food in this case is
imported food (soft drinks, tuna cans, spam cans etc.), and this consumers’ choice is harming the local economy,
despite the fact that Yap has all the resources to substitute the imported food with local food.
→ The Committee will discuss how to strengthen the informal economy addressing people’s consumption
habits towards local products and promoting innovative agriculture practices (i.e. CRI). It will also try to
identify potential links between traditional practices, health and education.
Input
→ Good Practice currently in place to be monitored and possibly expanded: Local Food Promotion
Project by the Tobacco and Diabetes Coalition
Figure 17 Imports of Food FY2000-FY2010
DATA Source: DOI and Pacific Island Training Initiative, “Federated States of Micronesia, Fiscal Year 2010
Economic Review”, available online via www.pitiviti.org .
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