3400 x 5100 px | 28,8 x 43,2 cm | 11,3 x 17 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
17 septembre 2004
Lieu:
Changuinola, Panama
Informations supplémentaires:
Bananas thrown away behind the banana plantation Changuinola, Panama, 17 September 2004. It has been estimated that about twenty percent of the whole banana harvest is thrown away with no use because the fruit does not meet the company standards to be sold in Europe and the US. Eighty percent of the exported bananas in the world are grown in Latin America. Local farms have no other alternative than to sell for a price offered by the multinational company. When working conditions and ecology is in question, the corporations do not have any responsibility as they do not own plantations. Local governments in the attempt of organizing banana export provide low duty taxes on export, they try to eliminate social and enviromental politics to attract the big companies to their countries.
