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Bananas are the fifth most widely traded farm product. While the results of monopolization in the banana business, such as environmental contamination and the exploitation of labor, are frequently criticized, Globalized Fruit, Local... more
Bananas are the fifth most widely traded farm product. While the results of monopolization in the banana business, such as environmental contamination and the exploitation of labor, are frequently criticized, Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs demonstrates that the industry is not globally uniform, nor uniformly rotten. Douglas Southgate and Lois Roberts challenge the perception that multinational corporations face no significant competitors in the banana business and argue that Ecuador and Colombia are important sources of competition. Focusing on Ecuador, the world's leading exporter of bananas since the early 1950s, Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs highlights the factors that led to the development of independent fruit industries, including environmental conditions, governmental policies, and, most significantly, entrepreneurship on the part of local growers and exporters. Although multinational firms headquartered in the United States have been active in the country, Ecuador has never been a banana republic, dominated economically and politically by a foreign corporation. Instead, Southgate and Roberts show that a competitive market for tropical fruit exists in and around Guayaquil, a port city dedicated to international commerce for centuries. Moreover, that market has consistently rewarded productive entrepreneurship. Drawing on interviews and archival research, Southgate and Roberts investigate leading exporters' and growers' origins, which are more humble than privileged, as well as their paths to success in the banana business. Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs shows that international marketing by Guayaquil-based merchants has been aggressive and innovative. As a result, Ecuador's tropical fruit sector has expanded more than it would have done had multinational corporate dominance never been challenged.
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... References Gregersen, HM, KN Brooks, JA Dixon, and L. S. Hamilton. Guidelines for Economic Appraisal of Wa-tershed Management Projects. ... Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. Reed, David A. The Winnowing: Economic... more
... References Gregersen, HM, KN Brooks, JA Dixon, and L. S. Hamilton. Guidelines for Economic Appraisal of Wa-tershed Management Projects. ... Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. Reed, David A. The Winnowing: Economic Change in Rural America. ...
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Bananas are the fifth most widely traded farm product. While the results of monopolization in the banana business, such as environmental contamination and the exploitation of labor, are frequently criticized, Globalized Fruit, Local... more
Bananas are the fifth most widely traded farm product. While the results of monopolization in the banana business, such as environmental contamination and the exploitation of labor, are frequently criticized, Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs demonstrates that the industry is not globally uniform, nor uniformly rotten. Douglas Southgate and Lois Roberts challenge the perception that multinational corporations face no significant competitors in the banana business and argue that Ecuador and Colombia are important sources of competition. Focusing on Ecuador, the world's leading exporter of bananas since the early 1950s, Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs highlights the factors that led to the development of independent fruit industries, including environmental conditions, governmental policies, and, most significantly, entrepreneurship on the part of local growers and exporters. Although multinational firms headquartered in the United States have been active in the country, Ecuador has never been a banana republic, dominated economically and politically by a foreign corporation. Instead, Southgate and Roberts show that a competitive market for tropical fruit exists in and around Guayaquil, a port city dedicated to international commerce for centuries. Moreover, that market has consistently rewarded productive entrepreneurship. Drawing on interviews and archival research, Southgate and Roberts investigate leading exporters' and growers' origins, which are more humble than privileged, as well as their paths to success in the banana business. Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs shows that international marketing by Guayaquil-based merchants has been aggressive and innovative. As a result, Ecuador's tropical fruit sector has expanded more than it would have done had multinational corporate dominance never been challenged.
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A dynamic optimal control model describing the benefits and costs associated with the development of tropical forests rich in plant and animal species and folk knowledge is presented. The model is used as a framework to assess how various... more
A dynamic optimal control model describing the benefits and costs associated with the development of tropical forests rich in plant and animal species and folk knowledge is presented. The model is used as a framework to assess how various market and institutional incentives might influence both deforestation and the collection of "ethnobiological information."
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... 1 / 1 Seleccione referencia / Select reference. Signatura: 007833. Autor: SOUTHGATE, D. Título: The economics of land degradation in the third world. P. imprenta: Washington, DC World Bank. 1988. 18 p. Descriptores: Suelos;... more
... 1 / 1 Seleccione referencia / Select reference. Signatura: 007833. Autor: SOUTHGATE, D. Título: The economics of land degradation in the third world. P. imprenta: Washington, DC World Bank. 1988. 18 p. Descriptores: Suelos; Colonizacion; Erosion; Impacto ambiental. ...
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... Use and management of Ecuador's forests have also been affected by the prohibition on log exports. ... Depletive management of Ecuador's coastal ecosystems has much to do with property rights. By law, wetlands are a... more
... Use and management of Ecuador's forests have also been affected by the prohibition on log exports. ... Depletive management of Ecuador's coastal ecosystems has much to do with property rights. By law, wetlands are a national patrimony. ...
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... para imprimir. Fotocópia. Id: 129048. Autor: Hitzhusen, F; Macgregor, B; Southgate, DD. Título: Private and social cost; benefit perspectives and a case application on reservoir sedimentation management. Fonte: Water... more
... para imprimir. Fotocópia. Id: 129048. Autor: Hitzhusen, F; Macgregor, B; Southgate, DD. Título: Private and social cost; benefit perspectives and a case application on reservoir sedimentation management. Fonte: Water international;9(4):181-4, dic. 1984. Tablas. Idioma: En. ...
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Research Interests: Economics, Poverty, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture, Rural Poverty, and 13 moreEl Salvador, Applied Economics, Panel Data, Agricultural land use change, environmental Kuznets curve, Natural Resource, Subsistence Agriculture, Household Income, Environment, Per Capita Income, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT, Kuznets Curve, and agricultural land
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ABSTRACT: The relationship between communities' water treatment costs and soil erosion is estimated. Twelve communities in Ohio's Corn Belt were selected for analysis. Independent variables, other than soil erosion, used... more
ABSTRACT: The relationship between communities' water treatment costs and soil erosion is estimated. Twelve communities in Ohio's Corn Belt were selected for analysis. Independent variables, other than soil erosion, used in the analysis included treatment ...
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... The following six chapters present Ecuadorian case studies, covering tropical deforestation, farmland degradation, waste and misallocation of water resources, oil industry pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon, shrimp mariculture and... more
... The following six chapters present Ecuadorian case studies, covering tropical deforestation, farmland degradation, waste and misallocation of water resources, oil industry pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon, shrimp mariculture and coastal ecosystems, and tourism and species ...
Research Interests: Environmental Science, Economic Growth, Case Studies, Economic policy, Economic Development, and 11 moreNatural Resource Economics, Tourism, Developing Country, Erosion, Mariculture, Deforestation, Resource Management, Environmental degradation, Environmental Impact, Amazon rainforest, and Natural Resource
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