Guatemala's cotton
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- Created on: 14-05-14 08:54
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- Guatemala's Cotton
- Social
- This paid for pesticides, machines and equipment
- In the 80's 75% of the cotton crop was exported
- Could grow more crops to feed population
- Only 1% of land used for cotton would be needed to produce same income
- This paid for pesticides, machines and equipment
- Political
- Trade arrangements made it difficult - tied to exporting raw cotton
- TNC's now import cotton into Guatemala for workers in factories to produce T-shirts for overseas markets
- Trade arrangements made it difficult - tied to exporting raw cotton
- Economic
- In the 80's 75% of the cotton crop was exported
- If they had processed the raw cotton into clothes and transported them they would have earned more
- Only 1% of land used for cotton would be needed to produce same income
- Environmental
- Deforestation in the Peten rainforest for more land
- Deforestation in the Peten rainforest for more land
- Demographic
- 50% employed in agriculture
- Social
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