Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs
Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs
How One Banana-Exporting Country Achieved Worldwide Reach
Douglas Southgate and Lois Roberts
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
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ISBN 978-0-8122-4807-4
CONTENTS
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
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 9. The Environmental Impact
Chapter 10. Continuing Challenges, New Risks
Chapter 11. Creative Destruction?
Appendix: Ecuadorian Banana Production and Exports, 1961 to 2013
ABBREVIATIONS
| A&P | Atlantic and Pacific supermarket chain |
| ACP | Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific |
| AEBE | Asociación de Exportadores de Banano del Ecuador |
| AGP | Associate Growers’ Program |
| ANBE | Asociación Nacional de Bananeros Ecuatorianos |
| BCA | Banco Comercial y Agrícola |
| BFA | Banana Framework Agreement |
| BNF | Banco Nacional de Fomento |
| CAN | Conservation Agriculture Network |
| CIA | U.S. Central Intelligence Agency |
| CIF | cost insurance freight |
| COMB | Common Organization of the Market for Bananas |
| COPORESA | Corporación Ecuatoriana Europea |
| CTE | Confederación de Trabajadores Ecuatorianos |
| DBCP | dibromochloropropane |
| EEC | European Economic Community |
| EU | European Union |
| FAO | UN Food and Agriculture Organization |
| FDI | Foreign Direct Investment |
| FHIA | Fundación Hondureña de Investigación Agrícola |
| FOC | Fusarium oxysporum Schlect. f. sp. Cubense virus |
| GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| GM | genetically modified |
| HIV | human immunodeficiency virus |
| IERAC | Instituto Ecuatoriano de Reforma Agraria y Colonización |
| IESS | Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| INC | Instituto Nacional de Colonización |
| INRA | Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique |
| IPR | intellectual property right |
| ISI | import substituting industrialization |
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