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Fair Bananas!: Farmers, Workers, And Consumers Strive To Change An Industry,Used
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Bananas are the mostconsumed fruit in the world. In the United States alone, the public eats about twentyeight pounds of bananas per person every year. The total value of the international banana trade is nearly five billion dollars annually, with 80 percent of all exported bananas originating in Latin America. There are as many as ten million people involved in growing, packing, and shipping bananas, but American consumers have only recently begun to think about them and about their working conditions. Although European nations have helped create a fair trade system for bananas grown in Mediterranean and Caribbean regions, the United States as a country has not developed a similar system for bananas grown in Latin America, where large corporations have dominated trade for more than a century.Fair Bananas! is one of the first books to examine the issue of fairtrade bananas. Specifically, Henry Frundt analyzes whether a farmerworkerconsumer alliance can collaborate to promote a fairtrade label for bananasmuch like those for fairtrade coffee and chocolatethat will appeal to North American shoppers. Researching the issue for more than ten years, Henry Frundt has elicited surprising and nuanced insights from banana workers, Latin American labor officials, company representatives, and fairtrade advocates.Frundt writes with admirable clarity throughout the book, which he has designed for college students who are being introduced to the subject of international trade and for consumers who are interested in issues of development. Frankly, though, Fair Bananas! will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about bananas, including where they come from and how they get from there to here.
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