Monday, January 5, 2009: 9:10 AM
Empire Ballroom East (Sheraton New York)
This paper examines the agrarian and alimentary histories of two food trade
networks that now link Africa's food-exporting countries to Britain and France.
Focusing on a francophone trade in green beans from Burkina Faso and an
anglophone trade in "baby veg" from Zambia, it shows how their distinctive
"cultures of commerce" owe much to commercial norms and practices, patterns of
agricultural resource access, and power relations established during the
colonial era.
networks that now link Africa's food-exporting countries to Britain and France.
Focusing on a francophone trade in green beans from Burkina Faso and an
anglophone trade in "baby veg" from Zambia, it shows how their distinctive
"cultures of commerce" owe much to commercial norms and practices, patterns of
agricultural resource access, and power relations established during the
colonial era.
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