{"id":1704,"date":"2017-03-29T13:02:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T17:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2017-04-17T08:42:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T12:42:42","slug":"bananas-a-not-so-a-peeling-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/2017\/03\/29\/bananas-a-not-so-a-peeling-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bananas: A Not So A-PEELING Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bananas are the fourth largest agriculturally grown commodity\u00a0with over 100 billion bananas sold every year according to World Trade Organization, 2014. \u00a0With such a lucrative market and capitalism dominating the market standards, banana production has come into ethical and legal question. \u00a0Chiquita, one of the largest suppliers of bananas growing in Central America, has had a long history of balancing sales figures and ethical\u00a0production standards\u00a0of the\u00a0popular fruit. \u00a0Many barriers, like globalized price competition and United State&#8217;s changing\u00a0agrochemical limits\u00a0used in banana production are just a few of the structural barrier of the farming process. \u00a0Chiquita has had a dark past with ethically producing bananas, although in recent years, they have become more of a &#8220;poster-child&#8221; producer with their partnerships with\u00a0Fairtrade and RainforestAlliance to produce sustainable bananas <em>and<\/em> communities in Central America.\u00a0In this story, I aim to depict the evolution of the Chiquita brand bananas grown in Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1\u00a1\u00a1\u00a1 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/storymap.knightlab.com\/edit\/?id=gis-bananas\">Visit My StoryMap about Bananas<\/a>\u00a0!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bananas are the fourth largest agriculturally grown commodity\u00a0with over 100 billion bananas sold every year according to World Trade Organization, 2014. \u00a0With such a lucrative market and capitalism dominating the market standards, banana production has come into ethical and legal question. \u00a0Chiquita, one of the largest suppliers of bananas growing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32861,31563,61425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumption-storymap","category-section-2","category-spring-2017","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}