Proceedings of the 27 th West Indies Agricultural Economics Conference In collaboration with The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Belize, Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), The University of the West Indies (UWI) and la Asociación de Latinoamérica y del Caribe de Economía Agrícola (ALACEA) Improving Marketing and Sustaining Natural Resource Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean Belize City, Belize 23 rd - 27 th July, 2007 Sharon D. Hutchinson Editor Copyright @ June 2009 by the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without the prior consent of the publisher.