I’m working on a post on the world trade in bananas and I’m looking for information. Anybody have a good source? Know something about agricultural trade in general, bananas in particular?
I’m working on a post on the world trade in bananas and I’m looking for information. Anybody have a good source? Know something about agricultural trade in general, bananas in particular?
Might want to start with the FAO Commodity Study. There might be a more recent one, that’s just the first one to come up on my search.
If you’re looking for something more specific, let me know.
Thanks. I’ve already got that (it was the first place I went). What I’ve got so far is that bananas are the most valuable export for practically every banana-exporting country. I knew that already. What I’m looking for is dollar or Euro value by country and total exports by country in Euro’s or dollars.
The data’s a decade old, but half of what you’re looking for is here. I know for a fact that Ecuador’s banana exports are now over $1.5b, so you might want to adjust the figures up 50% or so.
Also, the bottom half of the list is very different now: see here.
Total exports are here. You can see there that Ecuador’s total exports are about $12.5 billion, so bananas constitute about 12% of the total.
Dave — one of my favorite professors is a banana expert — John Soluri —
http://www.history.cmu.edu/faculty/jSoluri.html
He has always been very accessible, plus his CV could be a decent start.
Fester
What a great reference! Thanks, fester. I’ll take a look.