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Barbuda Foodways

Barbuda

Island

โš  NOT ANTIGUA WITH FEWER PEOPLE. Barbuda has around 1,500 inhabitants, one village at CODRINGTON, and a land system without parallel in the region: the island was leased whole to the Codrington family, who used it to provision their Antiguan sugar estates rather than to grow cane, and after emancipation the Barbudans continued holding LAND IN COMMON โ€” a communal tenure defended in Barbudan law and contested after Hurricane Irma devastated the island in 2017. The food: LOBSTER, for which Barbuda is known and which is a principal export; conch; fish; venison from the introduced deer; guinea fowl; and the frigate bird colony of Codrington Lagoon, which is protected. โš  COMMON LAND IS A FOOD-SYSTEM FACT, because it determines who may farm and fish and on what terms.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Barbudans community documented

Languages: Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

What is recorded

  • Barbudans have held land in common since emancipation, a communal tenure system defended in Barbudan law and contested following the devastation of the island by Hurricane Irma in 2017. Lobster is a principal Barbudan export. The land tenure system is recorded as a food-system fact because it determines access to farming and fishing. documented
  • Hurricane Irma devastates Barbuda; the island is evacuated and its communal land tenure comes under contest. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Antigua and Barbuda Foodways documented

    โš  Barbuda held land in common after emancipation and was a provisioning island rather than a cane island. A different land system and therefore a different food system.

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