Fair trade and Eastern Caribbean banana farmers: Rhetoric and reality in the anti-globalization movement

Human Organization

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 4-15

  Moberg, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bananas; Eastern Caribbean; Fair Trade; Globalization

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL TRADE; PRICE DETERMINATION; TARIFF STRUCTURE; TRADE PERFORMANCE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; OCEANIC REGIONS; SAINT LUCIA; WINDWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; WORLD;

LUCIA;

EID: 18544383761     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.64.1.j8ad5ffqqktq102g     Document Type: Article

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