Introduction: Honduran workers--new voices, old memories -- Intersecting projects: contested visions for the North Coast -- Revolutionary antecedents to the 1954 strike: liberals, rebels and radicals -- Life and labor in banana fincas -- The making of a campeño and campeña culture: race,...

Banana Production, Global Trade, Consumption Trends, Postharvest Handling and Processing / Edward A. Evans, Fredy H. Ballen and Muhammad Siddiq -- Biology and Postharvest Physiology of Banana / Mari̹a Gloria Lobo-Rodrigo and Francisco Javier Ferna̹ndez Rojas -- Banana Pathology and...

This paper examines the welfare loss of import restrictions on bananas in Australia and whether the import restrictions have turned into a particular form of export promotion. We set up a model in which there is free domestic entry, with banana producers accepting losses in normal years, off-set...

In a world of environmental limits, sustainable and productive agriculture is crucial to foster socioeconomic development and food security, primarily in low income economies. The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges and potential opportunities for Latin American countries which...

This paper gives a general overview of rationale of tropical agricultural circular economy. On me basis of ecological economic theory, circular economy is a new model of economic development which aims at realizing reducing of resources use, reuse of products and recycling of wastes, conforming...

Tropische Entwaldung ist eines der dringendsten Umweltprobleme unserer Zeit. Sie ist einer der wichtigsten Treiber des Klimawandels und führt zu hohen Verlusten von Biodiversität und Ökosystemdienstleistungen. Bolivien ist eines der Länder mit den höchsten Entwaldungsraten weltweit. Im...

Pesticides have been of great benefit to agriculture in the Philippines by decreasing crop losses due to insects, weeds, plant diseases, rodents, and other pests. However, they may build-up in the food chain and can cause contamination of the environment. We examined farmers’ pesticide usage...

This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and institutions. We find...

The author employs a model in which the direction of technical change is induced by changes in relative resource endowments to interpret the trajectories of technical change in both developed and developing country agriculture. An international agricultural research system, an institutional...

The author employs a model in which the direction of technical change is induced by changes in relative resource endowments to interpret the trajectories of technical change in both developed and developing country agriculture. An international agricultural research system, an institutional...