Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America
Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America

Author: Robert G. Williams

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014-02-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1469615886

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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.

Perspectives on the Agro-Export Economy in Central America
Perspectives on the Agro-Export Economy in Central America

Author: Wim Pelupessy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1991-06-18

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1349116602

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This volume focuses on the issues and debates surrounding the agricultural export economy of Central America. Perspectives on traditional exports and the international markets, and labour problems are provided as well as a comparative study of the Salvadorean and Nicaraguan cotton sectors.

Structural Adjustment and the Agricultural Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
Structural Adjustment and the Agricultural Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author: John Weeks

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-03

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1349240257

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As a result of the regional debt crisis, most governments of Latin America in the 1980s entered into a process of profound policy change, from an import substitution oriented strategy to a focus upon export-promotion, with an emphasis upon market liberalisation. According to mainstream economic theory, the effect of this shift would be to favour agriculture. This book, with contributors from Latin America and Europe, surveys the results on agriculture of a decade of policy change, and to produce new and unexpected insights.

Feeding the Crisis
Feeding the Crisis

Author: Rachel Garst

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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Conners argues that children's food can shape the course of the brain's growth, its function and capabilities. A serious work for the lay reader. The authors show how US food assistance is hurting, rather than helping Central American economies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR