IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/hal-05179746.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Market file. The banana in the United Kingdom
[Fiche marché. La banane au Royaume-Uni]

Author

Listed:
  • Daniella Blake
  • Carolina Dawson

    (UR GECO - Fonctionnement écologique et gestion durable des agrosystèmes bananiers et ananas - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement)

  • Noémie Cantrelle

Abstract

The United Kingdom was the first European country to import bananas, back in the 1880s from the Canaries, and then from islands in the British Empire (Jamaica and the Windward Islands). During the Second World War, the banana disappeared from shelves, with commercial ships requisitioned for military purposes,, and its absence made it a symbol of the hardships and voluntary sacrifices. It made its comeback in the 1950s, very quickly becoming a strategic product for the distribution sector. Thereafter, its consumption made very rapid progress, making the United Kingdom the number two European market in terms of volumes.

Suggested Citation

  • Daniella Blake & Carolina Dawson & Noémie Cantrelle, 2022. "Market file. The banana in the United Kingdom [Fiche marché. La banane au Royaume-Uni]," Post-Print hal-05179746, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05179746
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05179746. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.