Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America

by RobertG.Williams (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1986

  $49.63

  Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas. Williams shows how this rapid growth contributed to the present social and political crisis, examines the causes of the export boom, and shows the impact of the boom on land use and the ecology.