Banana Trade

2. Farming system where a single crop is grown over a large area, increasing vulnerability to pests and disease.
5. Powerful U.S.-based banana company central to trade disputes and ethical criticisms.
6. Type of banana production avoiding synthetic chemicals, often sold at a premium in richer markets.
7. Certification scheme promoting better prices and working conditions for small banana farmers.
10. Concern relating to worker rights, environmental impacts, and corporate behaviour in the banana industry.
13. The world’s dominant banana variety, now threatened by new strains of Panama disease.
14. plantations Large‑scale, profit‑driven farming estates often run by TNCs in tropical regions.

1. Agreement giving Caribbean banana exporters special access to EU markets before WTO intervention.
3. war Term for the long dispute between the EU and U.S. over banana import policies.
4. Global trade organisation that ruled against the EU’s preferential banana tariffs in the 1990s.
8. Major threat to banana production, including Panama and Black Sigatoka, which can devastate plantations.
9. Global corporations like Chiquita or Dole that dominate banana production and trade.
11. Political ideology influencing Cold War tensions in Central America, where banana companies held major power.
12. Region whose small banana producers were historically protected by the EU under preferential trade agreements.