Ambition meets reality: lessons from the taro boom in Nicaragua
Between 2006 and 2011, Nicaragua shipped an average of US$9.4 million per year of smallholder-produced fresh taro (Colocasia esculenta) to the USA; however, by 2016, the US market for Nicaraguan taro had effectively collapsed. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the short-lived taro boom from th...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Emerald Publishing Limited
2018
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171162 |
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