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Banana Production Overview

The geography of a tropical fruit: banana republics

Changing consumption and trade

Agribusiness and corporate strategies in the banana export industry

Technological change
Corporate restructuring
Plantations or small farms
New markets

Economic and social impacts of change

Bananas and the biophysical environment

Banana Production at a Local Scale

Studying agriculture at a local scale

Banana cultivation in the Philippines: A farm study

The establishment of production at Lapanday
History of land occupancy
Location factors
Links with other firms
Government policies
National economic and political conditions
The social environment
Biophysical impacts
Summary: The global context

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