Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America

Type

Book

Authors

Robert G. Williams

ISBN 10

0807841544

ISBN 13

9780807841549

Tags

Development & Growth, Economic Conditions, International, Central America, Reference, Agricultural Sciences, Caribbean & Latin American, Political Economy, Business Development, International Business, Latin America, Political Science

Description

Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas. Williams shows how the rapid growth contributed to the present social and political crisis, examines the causes of the export boom and who benefited from it, and shows the impact of the boom on land use, the ecology, and the conditions of life in the rural areas. - from Amzon

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