Mapping Foodways in African and American History | EV & N 338 | CCTV

On the Occasion of
Black History Month,
2020

http://ecoethics.net/2014-ENVRE120/20200209-EV&N-338-Link.html

https://www.cctvcambridge.org/node/696363

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The history of the slave trade has left its mark on the culinary and ethnobotanical record on all sides of the Atlantic economic system.  It is now possible to begin tracing this history with with historical accounts, ethnobotanical evidence, ethnographic research and new form of international collaboration afforded by newly developed computer and digitization technology.

See related:

• ‘Our Food System Is Very Much Modeled on Plantation Economics’ | FAIR
• The Historical Origins, Evolution and Future Dimensions of Africa’s Recurrent Food Crises
• The Globalization of Food Production: The Atlantic Plantation System and the Origins of Africa’s Food Crisis