Agreement (ACFTA) on Philippine fresh banana exports covering the period 1990-2013. Results of the shift and share analysis … countries and to China. The country's fresh banana exports to China were also not price competitive before and after the zero … tariff regime in ACFTA. In terms of quality competitiveness, the Philippine fresh banana exports to China were also not …

Introduction: ways of living, ways of knowing -- From scramblers for fruit to banana empire, 1870-1930 -- Tropical … vexations -- Corporate welfarism meets the tropics -- Wandering foci of infection -- Becoming banana cowboys -- Serving science …

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Global Fruit -- The Global Banana Trade -- Banana …, Popular Struggle, and Capitalist Transformation in Ecuador -- ‘‘The Macondo of Guatemala’’: Banana Workers and National … Revolution in Tiquisate, 1944–1954 -- The Threat of Blackness to the Mestizo Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Honduran Banana …