Green Gold: Bananas and Dependency in the Eastern Caribbean, Volume 5Looks at the history and future prospects for the banana industry in four Caribbean islands: Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent. It focuses on conditions for the small farmers and includes a study of Geest PLC, the company solely responsible for distributing Windward bananas in Britain. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The producers | 14 |
Paternalism and profits | 27 |
Copyright | |
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