Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Culture, conventions and colonial constructs of rurality in south–north horticultural trades
AbstractThis paper draws on comparative social history and convention theory to examine current transformations in the contemporary “Anglophone” and “Francophone” fresh vegetable trades between Africa and Europe. In the 1990s both British and later French supermarkets adopted codes defining standards of food safety, agricultural best practice and, in the UK, “ethical trade.” As conventions, these standards represent corporate efforts not only to assure but also profit from an increasingly comprehensive notion of food quality. These standards also promise to drive changes in retailers’ international fresh produce supply chains, but not uniformly. Comparative historical analysis of French and English conventions, as they apply to African fresh produce commodity chains, provides insight into the interplay between place, culture, and national and international political economies.
Culture, conventions and colonial constructs of rurality in south–north horticultural trades
AbstractThis paper draws on comparative social history and convention theory to examine current transformations in the contemporary “Anglophone” and “Francophone” fresh vegetable trades between Africa and Europe. In the 1990s both British and later French supermarkets adopted codes defining standards of food safety, agricultural best practice and, in the UK, “ethical trade.” As conventions, these standards represent corporate efforts not only to assure but also profit from an increasingly comprehensive notion of food quality. These standards also promise to drive changes in retailers’ international fresh produce supply chains, but not uniformly. Comparative historical analysis of French and English conventions, as they apply to African fresh produce commodity chains, provides insight into the interplay between place, culture, and national and international political economies.
Culture, conventions and colonial constructs of rurality in south–north horticultural trades
Freidberg, Susanne E (Autor:in)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 19 ; 97-109
01.01.2002
13 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Culture, conventions and colonial constructs of rurality in south-north horticultural trades
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