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Hard labour on Costa Rican plantations – video by Jan Nimmo

Chapter 2 / Case studies / Tropical Fruits

Video included here by permission of Jan Nimmo – http://www.greengold.org.uk/

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Chapter 2

  • Immediate causes of the food crisis
    • Immediate causes of the food crisis
    • Crude oil price and food price index, 2006 – 2009
    • Rice price, El Salvador
    • Palm oil production in Honduras
  • The effects – hunger and malnutrition
    • Hunger in Central America
    • Nicaragua’s Zero Hunger Programme
    • Historic moment in Costa Rican labour history
  • On food security and food sovereignty
    • Definitions of food security and food sovereignty
    • GMOs in food aid to Central America
    • “Stop talking politics”
    • GMOs in Honduras and El Salvador
    • La Vía Campesina
    • Seguridad alimentaria en Panamá
    • Food security in Panamá
  • The long term origins of the food crisis
    • Famine and Hunger Devastate Guatemala …, Again The Pathological Interdependence of Feast and Famine in the Global “Free Trade” Economic Order
    • Solidarismo
    • JFC: new union-buster on the block: how solidarismo operates
    • Effects of Costa Rica’s Seed Law
    • US interferes in El Salvador’s seed distribution practices
  • Case studies
      • Tropical Fruits
        • The growth of pineapples in Costa Rica
        • Importance of Costa Rican pineapples in key European markets, 2008
        • Pineapples supplanting bananas in Costa Rica
        • Hard labour on Costa Rican plantations – video by Jan Nimmo
        • Gangster tactics against the unions in the pineapple industry
        • ANEXCO harasses and fires union members
        • Freedom and fairness for Fyffes workers
        • Historic moment in Costa Rican labour history
        • Costa Rica: the country that turns its back on the consequences of pineapple cultivation
        • Alarm as devastating banana fungus reaches the Americas
      • Pesticide (ab)use
        • Spray-flavoured pineapple
        • Pesticide (ab)use on Costa Rica’s plantations – video by Jan Nimmo
        • Water contamination from pineapple production in Costa Rica
        • Nemagon and DBCP
        • Pesticides in Costa Rica’s banana zones seriously affect pregnant women
        • Industrial farming methods spell damaging dust storms for Leon and Chinandega
        • Agrotoxics and Monocultivation: their impact on the health of the Salvadoran population
        • Caso Agrotoxicos y Monocultivo, Su Impacto en la Salud de la Poblacion Salvdorena
      • Sugar Cane
        • Sugar cane production and the CKDnT epidemic
      • Coffee
        • Growing Coffee without Endosulfan
        • Nicaraguan coffee farmers seek creative solutions to drought, climate change
      • Organic cultivation and permaculture
        • Number of organic farms in Central America, 2008
        • Permaculture in El Salvador
        • The Ecological Association of Permaculturalists of Suchitoto (AEPS)
        • [Video]: The Ecological Association of Permaculturalists of Suchitoto (AEPS)
        • [PPT]: The Ecological Association of Permaculturalists of Suchitoto (AEPS)
        • IFAD’s conclusions from evidence of organic farming in Central America
        • “To grow organic is to think different”
      • Fair Trade
        • The principles behind the practice of fair trade in agricultural products
        • Who Certifies the Certifiers? Retailers put Faith in Rainforest Alliance
        • The rise of Rainforest Alliance
  • Prospects
    • Honduras, Ethiopia and the crazy logic of food supply
    • New Costa Rican Law allows workers to be reinstated quickly
    • The European Union authorises the sale of campesino seeds
    • ¡La Unión Europea autoriza la venta de semillas campesinas!
    • The Rights of Small Farmers

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  • Thirst, crop failure and cattle deaths result from drought in Honduras
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  • Alarm as devastating banana fungus reaches the Americas
  • “To grow organic is to think different”

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