Smallholder banana farmers in Kenya grapple with declining farm productivity and low market prices in a fragmented, broker-dominated market. To address these challenges, the Kenya National Banana Development Strategy advocates for the adoption of contract farming. This research utilizes...

Purpose - This study aims to identify informal institutions for bottom-of-the-pyramid (BoP) business models in the agricultural sector through the case study of banana growers' cooperatives. Design/methodology/approach - A case study of six banana cooperatives from Colombia was conducted. The...

In Varietate Concordia - United in diversity, the motto of the European Union is often mentioned by some politicians and in EU-related literature. However, one wonders what this motto actually means for the EU and how it is implemented in reality. To this end, the terminology of the motto is...

Disjunctions in the fair trade movement -- Fair trade enclaves within neoliberalism -- The discourse of crisis -- Self-exploitation and co-ownership -- Research methods and positionality -- Producing bananas in Costa Rica -- Producing Alianza (and Caché) bananas -- Contracts -- Working hours...

This study examines the role of enset or false banana, an orphan crop with high resilience to extreme environmental conditions, high nutritional value, and long storability, in the livelihood of rural households in Ethiopia. With its specific characteristics, enset could reduce households'...

[enter Abstract Body]This research was carried out to produce wine from banana (Musa sapientum) pulp using yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) isolated from grape (Vitis vinifera).The fermentation of the banana wine lasted for 21 days. Physico-chemical parameters were determined during fermentation...

We propose the Se heteroatoms incorporated CoWS2 (Se-CoWS2) as anode and banana flower skin-derived activated carbon (BFS-AC) as cathode for supercapacitor application. The incorporation of Se into the CoWS2 atomic lattice and the resultant voids and vacancy defect on the basal plane are...

Given the current Trump´s stated trade policy it is interesting how the EU has established silently in the past trade barriers. The banana regime (BR) has been one of the most politically sensitive, technically complicated and economically complex legal disputes. The BR has started after WWII...

Deep Q-learning is the combination of the Q-learning process with a function approximation technique such as a neural network. According to (Zai & Brown 2020), the main idea behind Q-learning is the use of an algorithm to predict a state-action pair, and to then compare the results generated...

This study analyzes the influence of livelihood assets on Ugandan farmers' decisions to control Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW), a disease that has threatened banana production and the livelihoods of Ugandan farmers since 2001. The BXW control strategy is based on the simultaneous implementation...

The Government of Uganda has implemented programs and policies to improve the agricultural sector’s recent underperformance. Uganda’s two main food security crops, bananas and cassava, have been critically affected by two diseases: Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) and Cassava Brown Streak...

An oleaginous yeast, Cryptococcus sp., was isolated from a traditional Korean fermented fish and used for bio-oil production with banana peel as a feedstock. Pretreatment of banana peel with 1% sulfuric acid resulted in up to 4.5 g L-1 of glucose (11.2% yield), and 18.1 g L-1 of fructose (45.2%...

Este estudio forma parte de la colaboración entre la CEPAL y la Coordinadora Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Pequeños Productores y Trabajadores de Comercio Justo (CLAC), cuyo propósito es promover el aporte del comercio justo al desarrollo sostenible de la región. En esta oportunidad, se...

Purpose-Qualitydeteriorationinbananasalongthesupplychain(SC)duetocosmeticdamagehasbeena persistent challenge in Australia. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the incidence of cosmetic defectsin bananas across the post-harvest SC and determining the causesof thediminished fruitquality at...

"Drugs, violence, mafias, death squads, guerrilla armies, authoritarianism, corruption, crisis, death. These are the images conjured up when I tell people about my research on labor regime dynamics in rural Colombia. Sensationalized in popular films and mass media, Colombian society is often...

Quail production is becoming more popular because it may help close the gap between supply and demand in the meat and egg industry. However, one of the major problems in quail farming is the high feed cost, but this can be reduced if agricultural waste by-products are utilized as feedstuff. A...

The Agricultural College for the Humid Tropical Region (E.A.R.T.H.), the National Banana Corporation (CORBANA) and Clemson University in South Carolina have formed a consortium called ECOBANA which intends to mount a program of exhaustive research to identify the problem and begin the search for...

Contemporary scholars debate the factors driving despotic labour conditions across the world economy. Some emphasize the dominance of global market imperatives and others highlight the market's reliance upon extra-economic coercion and state violence. At the Margins of the Global Market engages...

While corporations wield tremendous amounts of power that can – in theory – ameliorate some of the global challenges that the world faces today, as things stand, the right incentives are not in place for the stakeholders to transform companies into socially responsible and environmentally...

The status of paralysis in which Zimbabwe has slipped throughout the past 37 years might be traced back to the Banana Administration. Since 1980, a number of economic policies have been formulated and subsequently implemented in Zimbabwe and yet the economy is still under intensive care. This...

Previous empirical evidence searching for externalities from Foreign Direct investment in Portugal showed mixed results. Using a new database containing 5,045 Portuguese manufacturing firms grouped by technological trajectories, we investigate the occurrence and magnitude of externalities from...

We examine whether local inconsistencies in the counting of votes influence voting behavior. We exploit the case of the second ballot of the 2016 presidential election in Austria. The ballot needed to be repeated because postal votes were counted carelessly in individual electoral districts...

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,...

This research examines the impact of shock advertising on consumer brand evaluations, for both socially acceptable and controversial product categories. The intervening roles of brand familiarity, perceived incongruity and disgust are also investigated. Utilizing two experiments and drawing upon...