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Fair Bananas!: Farmers, Workers, and Consumers Strive to Change an Industry
Henry J. Frundt
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Description for Fair Bananas!: Farmers, Workers, and Consumers Strive to Change an Industry
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFFT; KCLT; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Bananas are the most-consumed fruit in the world. In the United States alone, the public eats about twenty-eight pounds of bananas per person every year. The total value of the international banana trade is nearly five billion dollars annually, with 80 percent of all exported bananas originating in Latin America. There are as many as ten million people involved in growing, packing, and shipping bananas, but American consumers have only recently begun to think about them and about their working conditions. Although European nations have helped create a “fair trade” system for bananas grown in Mediterranean and Caribbean regions, the ... Read more
Bananas are the most-consumed fruit in the world. In the United States alone, the public eats about twenty-eight pounds of bananas per person every year. The total value of the international banana trade is nearly five billion dollars annually, with 80 percent of all exported bananas originating in Latin America. There are as many as ten million people involved in growing, packing, and shipping bananas, but American consumers have only recently begun to think about them and about their working conditions. Although European nations have helped create a “fair trade” system for bananas grown in Mediterranean and Caribbean regions, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816528363
SKU
V9780816528363
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
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