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TB0245 Andreas Schotter Mary Teagarden Blood Bananas: Chiquita in Colombia No one laughs at the banana in its areas of origin. It is too serious a business, on which jobs and lives depend. Peter Chapman, Author of Jungle Capitalists. For Chiquita Brands International, a pioneer in the globalization of the banana industry, bananas are not only serious business, they represent an array of economic, social, environmental, political, and legal hassles. Since its founding more than a hundred years

Summer 2013 Summer 2013 Case Report: Blood Bananas: Chiquita in Colombia BUSA 4980 Chiquita Brands international was founded in 1899 after the merger of United Fruit Company and the Boston Fruit Company. As bananas be came more of a staple in every home so do Chiquita Bananas. Bananas are know to mainly grown in tropical places like Central America, Africa and Southeast Asia. Chiquita decided to have operations out of Colombia. During this time there was turmoil in Colombia and different

Softer skin, smaller seeds, sweeter fruit, shorter width and longer length may have been favorable traits in the banana that the humans back then desired. Now, we know through the advance in research on genetics; that to be able to reliably produce these favorable traits; people must’ve been able to breed offspring that contained the dominant (or homozygous recessive)

from Leuven, Belgium. But for Maria Keller, the transition was as natural as it could be. She had spent 20 years in Leuven studying banana genetics at the Catholic University of Leuven’s Laboratory of Tropical Crops, the world center of banana research. She had learned about the challenges the banana-growing industry faced from a variety of diseases, why bananas seemed to be especially susceptible, and how difficult it is to develop new strains of the world’s most popular fruit. But after two

Bananas The banana plant, or Musa acuminata, is one of the most important fruiting plants on Earth. This plant belongs to the Musaceae family, also known as the “banana family”. The genus Musa refers to “large herbaceous flowering plants” with fruit that is usually elongated and curved, with a yellow, purple, or red rind covering soft starchy fruit (Merriam-Webster). Banana plants are often mistaken for trees, because their “false stem” or pseudostem resembles a tree trunk. However, trees are dicots

Commodity Chain Paper: Banana Republic A Paper Presented to Dr. Jennifer Anderson In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for ANTH 115 Emerging Global Cultures By Miguel Huerta October 14, 2015 Word Count: 1706 Banana is a commodity that is widely used worldwide. Bananas are neither too extravagant, nor too expensive meaning that anyone and any level of socio-economic status can purchase them, from the very poor to the very wealthy. Bananas can be found at any brand name store, farmers

The United Fruit Company was founded 1899, after the takeover of the Boston Fruit Company, thus forming the largest banana company in the world (Landmeier, 1997). Through strategic business moves, immediately developed a monopoly over the rapidly expanding banana trade in Latin America. This new company had 112 miles of railroad, 212,394 acres of land, and a capital of $11,230,00 and proceeded to buy lands in Santo Domingo, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, and Cuba, and increase additional acreage in

TV Advert you love or loathe Do you love or loathe Dole bananas. Have you ever seen something which was so unusual yet awe inspiring that it’s imprinted inside your hippocampus that you have dreams of telling your future grandkids about it? I remember that fateful day of July the 28st 2012, the year the Mayans were wrong about predicting the world was going to end. It was a beginning to another boring Saturday. I was in my room watching your typical YouTube videos on my computer since I’d had nothing

Chiquita Brands International is a multinational corporation that focuses on the distribution of bananas that are produced in several developing Latin American countries. There is a reoccurring theme of unethical behaviors in the banana industry which in return has made companies such as Chiquita to take on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). CSR has been a crucial factor for Chiquita to take attention to for a global turnaround. Important features Chiquita had to consider were obligations to

Samantha Wilkes Tracking food Professor Armon November 7, 2016 The Injustices found in Banana Cultivation on People and the Environment On average, a human being consumes about 3 meals a day. While many people eat whatever they please, there are many individuals who choose to live and maintain a healthy life style. While almost any type of food is available in our stores and markets here in the U.S., this does not mean much of produce we consume is actually grown here. Especially when it comes to