The sustainability of the present global food system is increasingly being questioned as the pressures from population, climate change and environmental depletion due to industrialist practices escalate.The recent economic and world food price crises have fuelled these anxieties and brought the concept of Food Security back to the forefront of discourse.Thinkers have been advocating a turn to local food varieties and cultivation methods and highlighting the importance of dealing with Food Security within contextual frames.While investigating the issue of Food Security in the small, twin island state of Antigua and Barbuda the question of culture and its ability to affect a countrys state of Food Security arose.Anomalies manifested which appeared to be directly related to cultural characteristics of the populace.More, it became evident that without taking these cultural characteristic into consideration and applying methods to alter them the people of the islands would remain food insecure.　　If there is to be any hope of improvements policy makers must first pursue initiatives which are aimed at fundamentally altering the behavioural patterns, attitudes and values of the populace.