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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97572-1lly, they are the most heavily traded tropical fresh fruit by volume, having surpassed apples and citrus (Wiley 1998; Nurse 2005). Persons around the world spend more than US$15.19 billion annually on the fruit. Moreover, worldwide, millions of people depend on banana production to earn a living (NERA 2003).

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The Jamaican Coffee Industry: Challenges and Responses to Increased Global Competitionto be a ‘specialty’ coffee—coffees grown in special geographic microclimates that produce beans with unique flavour profiles (Rhinehart 2009). However, with the changing dynamics in the specialty coffee markets, stakeholders are seeing declining demand for their coffee and when the demand is strong, the prices being commanded are lower than ever.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1581-3 economy. It also highlighted the comparative vulnerability of rural female former sugar workers who failed to secure alternative livelihoods in part because of their limited education and skills. The new emerging agricultural sector failed to attract the mass of former sugar workers mostly due to their unwillingness to be self-employed.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60749-3r of small farmers have lost interest in the industry, which can be seen in the decreasing production levels of small sugar cane farmers from the mid-1990s. Small farmers are vital to the sugar industry and as such their fortunes impact the industry as a whole.

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Geographies of Globalization, Climate Change and Food and Agriculture in the Caribbean to provide background analysis that synthesizes the importance of the various issues to the Caribbean. We begin by introducing the Caribbean as a region before discussing briefly the main themes of the book and introducing the chapters in each section by providing a summary of the contents of each.