Description
The article discusses how French beans and other food items from Africa have been traded between Europe and Africa for many years, but recently there has been a rise in food scares in the wealthy world. The article looks at how these food scares have affected the trade between these two regions, and how the different cultures have responded to these events.
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.