Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs : : How One Banana-Exporting Country Achieved Worldwide Reach /

Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs : : How One Banana-Exporting Country Achieved Worldwide Reach / / Lois Roberts, Douglas Southgate.

Bananas are the fifth most widely traded farm product. While the results of monopolization in the banana business, such as environmental contamination and the exploitation of labor, are frequently criticized, Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs demonstrates that the industry is not globally unifor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
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Southgate, Douglas,
Roberts, Lois,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 3 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Octopus
  • Chapter 2. El Pulpo's South American Rivals
  • Chapter 3. Never a Banana Republic
  • Chapter 4. Good Governance, for a Change
  • Chapter 5. South American Entrepreneurs Go Global
  • Chapter 6. Keeping Up with Technological Advances
  • Chapter 7. Agrarian Reform, Unionization, and a Policy Tilt Against Agriculture
  • Chapter 8. Resurgence
  • Chapter 9. The Environmental Impact
  • Chapter 10. Continuing Challenges, New Risks
  • Chapter 11. Creative Destruction?
  • Appendix: Ecuadorian Banana Production and Exports, 1961-2013
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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