The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean

The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean

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Publisher's Synopsis

Explores the impact of capital, state and the environment on contract-farming and also the impacts of banana production on the peasant workers. Grossman's work emphasizes the importance of ""environmental rootedness"" of agriculture in studies of political ecology and contract farming.

Book information

ISBN: 9780807847183
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Pub date:
Edition: 1st edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 296
Weight: 492g
Height: 233mm
Width: 157mm
Spine width: 19mm