Download or read book Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America written by Robert G. Williams and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas. Williams shows how the rapid growth contributed to the present social and political crisis, examines the causes of the export boom and who benefited from it, and shows the impact of the boom on land use, the ecology, and the conditions of life in the rural areas.