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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Southgate, Douglas
Otros Autores: Roberts, Lois
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Banana trade > Ecuador > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The octopus
  • 2. El Pulpo's South American rivals
  • 3. Never a Banana Republic
  • 4. Good governance, for a change
  • 5. South American entrepreneurs go global
  • 6. Keeping up with technological advances
  • 7. Agrarian reform, unionization, and a policy tilt against agriculture
  • 8. Resurgence
  • 9. The environmental impact
  • 10. Continuing challenges, new risks
  • 11. Creative destruction?
  • Appendix : Ecuadorian banana production and exports, 1961 to 2013.

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