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Saint Lucian Dishes and Agriculture

Specialised

GREEN FIG AND SALTFISH, the national dish. BOUYON — a thick one-pot of provisions, dumplings and meat, the Saturday and communal dish. ACCRA, salt fish fritters. Breadfruit roasted whole in the coals and cracked open. PUMPKIN soup, callaloo, stewed chicken, souse, black pudding. The agriculture: BANANAS, which were the entire export economy after sugar and whose collapse — when the European preferential market ended after WTO challenges in the 1990s and 2000s — devastated smallholder farming and drove migration; COCOA, fine-flavour and revived; coconut; mango and the enormous fruit range. ⚠ THE BANANA COLLAPSE IS A DOCUMENTED FOOD-SYSTEM EVENT and is recorded as such rather than as background.

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Languages: Saint Lucian Creole French, English

What is recorded

  • Banana exports constituted the principal Saint Lucian economy after sugar. The ending of European preferential market access following WTO challenges in the 1990s and 2000s is documented as having severely affected smallholder banana farming and as a driver of migration. This is recorded as a food-system event. documented
  • The end of European preferential access for Windward bananas after WTO challenges, which devastated smallholder farming in Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and drove migration. documented

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