The Caribbean Banana Trade
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Author | : P. Clegg |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2002-07-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1403932832 |
The Caribbean banana trade is a controversial issue within international affairs. Peter Clegg investigates the complex political relationships between the traditional actors in the trade and how the issues of colonialism and globalization have shaped their interactions. He presents a detailed analysis of the development of the Caribbean banana trade and analyzes why the influence and importance of the traditional actors within the trade has diminished over the last thirty years.
Author | : Steve Striffler |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2003-11-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822331964 |
DIVThe history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture./div
Author | : James Wiley |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0803216378 |
The Banana demystifies the banana trade and its path toward globalization. It reviews interregional relationships in the industry and the changing institutional framework governing global trade and assesses the roles of such major players as the European Union and the World Trade Organization. It also analyzes the forces driving today's economy, such as the competitiveness imperative, diversification processes, and niche market strategies. Its final chapter suggests how the outcome of the recent banana war will affect bananas and trade in other commodities sectors as well.
Author | : Mark Moberg |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781845451455 |
"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. This volume examines the "banana wars" from the vantage point of St. Lucia's Mabouya Valley, whose recent, turbulent history reveals the impact of global forces. The author investigates how the contemporary structure of the island's banana industry originated in colonial policies to create a politically "stable" peasantry. followed by politicians' efforts to mobilize rural voters. These political strategies left farmers dependent on institutional and market protection, leaving them vulnerable to any alteration in trade policy. This history gave way to a new harsh reality, in which neoliberal policies privilege price and quantity over human rights and the environment. However. against these challenges, the author shows how the rural poor have responded in creative ways, including new social movements and Fair Trade farming, in order to negotiate a stronger position for themselves in a shifting global economy."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Cleary Haines |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1451963793 |
This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of the erosion of trade preferences, with a focus on the export of Caribbean bananas to Europe. Estimates are made of the magnitude of implicit assistance provided over a period of three decades to eastern Caribbean countries through banana trade preferences. The value of such assistance rose until the early 1990s, and has declined precipitously since then. Using vector autoregressive analysis, the paper finds that changes in the level of implicit assistance have had a considerable macroeconomic impact, especially on Caribbean real GDP growth.
Author | : Timothy Edward Josling |
Publisher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2003-03-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780851997735 |
In 2001, the EU and US announced the end of a trade dispute over the sale of bananas into the EU market. The allocation of import liscences had been found to violate World Trade Organization rules and to discriminate against suppliers from Latin America.This book examines the issues surrounding the dispute, in particular: the dependence of small Carribean economies on European Banana Markets; the role of the private sector in influencing public policy; the relation between the banana trade and the political tensions of the EU Common Agricultural Policy; the domestic political influence of banana companies in the US and the role of the WTO and its settlement of trade disputes.
Author | : Gordon Myers |
Publisher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2004-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781842774533 |
In the Caribbean Windward Islands, one in three jobs and half of export earnings depend on bananas. Banana Wars tells how the US government, answering the grievances of a single American corporation, forced the World Trade Organization to nullify a European Community commitment to protect small Caribbean banana growers.
Author | : Robert Thomson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Looks at the history and future prospects for the banana industry in four Caribbean islands: Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent. It focuses on conditions for the small farmers and includes a study of Geest PLC, the company solely responsible for distributing Windward bananas in Britain.
Author | : Richard Alfred Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Banana trade |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lawrence S. Grossman |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780807847183 |
This study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere_capital, the state, and the environment. Employing the increasingly popular framework of political ecology, which highlights the dynamic linkages between political-economic forces and human-environment relationships, Lawrence Grossman provides a new perspective on the history and contemporary trajectory of the Windward Islands banana industry. He reveals in rich detail the myriad impacts of banana production on the peasant laborers of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Grossman challenges the conventional wisdom on three interrelated issues central to contract farming and political ecology. First, he analyzes the process of deskilling and the associated significance of control by capital and the state over peasant labor. Second, he investigates the impacts of contract farming for export on domestic food production and food import dependency. And third, he examines the often misunderstood problem of pesticide misuse. Grossman's findings lead to a reconsideration of broader debates concerning the relevance of research on industrial restructuring and globalization for the analysis of agrarian change. Most important, his work emphasizes that we must pay greater attention to the fundamental significance of the "environmental rootedness" of agriculture in studies of political ecology and contract farming.