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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... questions raised by the mad cow crises in other countries— questions that had important consequences for the places and people featured in this book. These were questions about how, for example, to make an increasingly complex food ...
... questions raised by the mad cow crises in other countries— questions that had important consequences for the places and people featured in this book. These were questions about how, for example, to make an increasingly complex food ...
الصفحة vi
... questions about the cozy relationship between agribusiness and the USDA. In short, they wanted to avert everything that mad cow had unleashed on the other side of the Atlantic, several years before. The beef industry, at least, took ...
... questions about the cozy relationship between agribusiness and the USDA. In short, they wanted to avert everything that mad cow had unleashed on the other side of the Atlantic, several years before. The beef industry, at least, took ...
الصفحة viii
... that school had all the answers, and my parents Colleen and Stan Freidberg, for giving me the confidence and freedom to go asking questions elsewhere. Preface Finally, I am grateful to the many unnamed individuals in viii.
... that school had all the answers, and my parents Colleen and Stan Freidberg, for giving me the confidence and freedom to go asking questions elsewhere. Preface Finally, I am grateful to the many unnamed individuals in viii.
الصفحة ix
... questions and whose words and ideas fill this book. In telling me about their work, they took not only time but also, in some cases, risks. As participants in this thing we call globalization, they helped me appreciate complexity and ...
... questions and whose words and ideas fill this book. In telling me about their work, they took not only time but also, in some cases, risks. As participants in this thing we call globalization, they helped me appreciate complexity and ...
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المحتوى
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 248 - LIVINGSTONE'S SOUTH AFRICA. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa ; including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loando on the West Coast ; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. By DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D., DCL With Portrait, Maps by Arrowsmith, and numerous Illustrations.
الصفحة 244 - HASSALL, MD Lond., Analyst of The Lancet Sanitary Commission ; and Author of the Reports of that Commission published under the title of Food and its Adulterations (which may also be had, in 8vo.
الصفحة 248 - DR. MARCET, FRS ON THE COMPOSITION OF' FOOD, AND HOW IT IS ADULTERATED ; with Practical Directions for its Analysis.
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.