- Banacol: A company implicated paramilitarism and land grabbing in Curvarado and Jiguamiando
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 This study focuses on the International Banacol Marketing Corporations actions in the Afro-Colombian and Mestizo communities collective territories of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó in the Lower Atrato region of Chocó, Colombia.
- Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2011 First there was a film about banana workers saying the Dole Food Company had made them infertile. Then Dole attacked the filmmakers. Now it's time for a new film!
- The History of Costa Rica
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
- Why bananas are a parable for our times
Amost unnoticed, bananas are dying Resource Type: Article The corporations that control the banana industry have created a giant monoculture. Disease is now destroying the fruit, and because natural genetic diversity has been eliminated, there is no remedy.
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