French Beans and Food Scares: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious AgeOxford University Press, USA, 21/10/2004 - 269 من الصفحات From mad cows to McDonaldization to genetically modified maize, European food scares and controversies at the turn of the millennium provoked anxieties about the perils hidden in an increasingly industrialized, internationalized food supply. These food fears have cast a shadow as long as Africa, where farmers struggle to meet European demand for the certifiably clean green bean. But the trade in fresh foods between Africa and Europe is hardly uniform. Britain and France still do business mostly with their former colonies, in ways that differ as dramatically as their national cuisines. The British buy their "baby veg" from industrial-scale farms, pre-packaged and pre-trimmed; the French, meanwhile, prefer their green beans naked, and produced by peasants. Managers and technologists coordinate the baby veg trade between Anglophone Africa and Britain, whereas an assortment of commercants and self-styled agro-entrepreneurs run the French bean trade. Globalization, then, has not erased cultural difference in the world of food and trade, but instead has stretched it to a transnational scale.French Beans and Food Scares explores the cultural economies of two "non-traditional" commodity trades between Africa and Europe--one anglophone, the other francophone--in order to show not only why they differ but also how both have felt the fall-out of the wealthy world's food scares. In a voyage that begins in the mid-19th century and ends in the early 21st, passing by way of Paris, London, Burkina Faso and Zambia, French Beans and Food Scares illuminates the daily work of exporters, importers and other invisible intermediaries in the global fresh food economy. These intermediaries' accounts provide a unique perspective on the practical and ethical challenges of globalized food trading in an anxious age. They also show how postcolonial ties shape not only different societies' geographies of food supply, but also their very ideas about what makes food good. |
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... global consequences. As this book went to press, that bigger story remained far from finished. I owe thanks to the many people who helped bring this book into the world. First, I am grateful for the fellowships provided by the National ...
... global consequences. As this book went to press, that bigger story remained far from finished. I owe thanks to the many people who helped bring this book into the world. First, I am grateful for the fellowships provided by the National ...
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... globalization, they helped me appreciate complexity and humanity in places where both are often overlooked. They gave me hope where I did not expect to find it. Preface This page intentionally left blank Contents 1 The Global Green ix.
... globalization, they helped me appreciate complexity and humanity in places where both are often overlooked. They gave me hope where I did not expect to find it. Preface This page intentionally left blank Contents 1 The Global Green ix.
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Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age Susanne Freidberg. This page intentionally left blank Contents 1 The Global Green Bean and Other Tales of.
Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age Susanne Freidberg. This page intentionally left blank Contents 1 The Global Green Bean and Other Tales of.
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Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age Susanne Freidberg. Contents. 1 The Global Green Bean and Other Tales of Madness 3 2 Feeding the Nation: The Making of Modern Food Provisioning 33 3 Burkina Faso: Rural Development and Patronage 61 4 ...
Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age Susanne Freidberg. Contents. 1 The Global Green Bean and Other Tales of Madness 3 2 Feeding the Nation: The Making of Modern Food Provisioning 33 3 Burkina Faso: Rural Development and Patronage 61 4 ...
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Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age Susanne Freidberg. French Beans and Food Scares This page intentionally left blank The Global Green Bean and.
Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age Susanne Freidberg. French Beans and Food Scares This page intentionally left blank The Global Green Bean and.
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1 The Global Green Bean and Other Tales of Madness | 3 |
The Making of Modern Food Provisioning | 33 |
Rural Development and Patronage | 61 |
Settler Colonialism and Corporate Paternalism | 93 |
Expertise and Friendship | 127 |
Brands and Standards | 167 |
Conclusion | 211 |
Notes | 223 |
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adulteration African agricultural Agriflora anglophone audits Beans and Food Bobo-Dioulasso Brands and Standards Britain British supermarkets Burkina Faso Burkinabé buyers chapter Christian Aid codes Colonialism and Corporate commercial commodity networks Corporate Paternalism countries country’s crops cultural demand economic especially ethical trade European example Expertise and Friendship Faso's food commodity food retailing food safety Food Scares food supply foodways France francophone French Beans French food French importers fresh produce importers fresh vegetable fruits and vegetables Gallot Global Green green bean exporters growers helped horticultural hygiene increasingly industry intermediaries Kenya labor late 20th century Lusaka NGOs norms Northern Rhodesia organic outgrowers packhouse peasant percent pesticide policies political postcolonial practices regions relationships Rungis sell Settler Colonialism smallholders social Soil Association suppliers supply chain transnational trust U.K. supermarkets United Kingdom Upper Volta urban wholesalers women workers Zambia Zimbabwe
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الصفحة 239 - Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning unmasked, or Disease and Death in the Pot and...
الصفحة 237 - Legislation on the Production and Export of Fruits and Vegetables from Developing Country Suppliers.