Export agriculture and the crisis in Central America
(2014)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The University of North Carolina Press : Made available through hoopla, 2014
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781469615882 (electronic bk.) MWT11710086, 1469615886 (electronic bk.) 11710086
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
Mode of access: World Wide Web