Slipping away : banana politics and fair trade in the Eastern Caribbean /

"During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region's rural communities was devastating. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Moberg, Mark, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
Series:Dislocations ; v. 4.
Subjects:
Banana trade > Saint Lucia.
Banana growers > Saint Lucia.
Globalization > Economic aspects > Saint Lucia.
Competition, Unfair.
Banane > Commerce > Sainte-Lucie.
Producteurs de bananes > Sainte-Lucie.
Mondialisation > Sainte-Lucie.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
Banana growers.
Banana trade.
Globalization > Economic aspects.
Saint Lucia.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Map of St. Lucia
  • Linking the personal, the local, and the global
  • An island in history
  • Banananomics : work and identity among island growers
  • St. Lucia in the global banana trade
  • Banana politics
  • Privatization and fragmentation
  • Survivors
  • Desperate times, desperate measures
  • Fair trade in discourse and practice
  • Fair trade and conventional farming in the Mabouya valley
  • Conclusion : a new world or a new kind of dependence?

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