Title: Chiquita Banana Supply Chain
Headings: 
Chiquita Banana Supply Chain
Map of the general supply chain of Chiquita Banana
Overview of Supply Chain
Chiquita Displaces Locations
The Good and Bad of Chiquita
Governance
Chiquita and the WTO
Labor
Labor Conditions and "Race to Bottom"
Attempts at Improvement
Environment
More Environmental Impacts
Discourse, Images, and Brand Identity
Discourse, Images, and Brand Identity (cont.)
Discourse, Images, Brand Identity (cont.)

Content: It is reported that over 33% of these cases involve banana workers or individuals who live near banana plantations. These “toxic chemicals are illegal in Europe, the United States, and Canada; however, Chiquita continues to use these pesticides, valuing production efficiency over environmental and worker welfare” (Piper). Throughout regions in Central America, Chiquita is the primary employer and often the only source of work, giving it an alarming amount of leverage over banana plantation workers. According to an article from Harvard Political Review, Chiquita has a system in Honduras that “alerts Chiquita supervisors when they can fire workers without having to provide benefits or pay above the minimum wage” (Piper). Due to falling production, from 1987 to 1996, the minimum wage for workers on banana plantations fell from $8 a day to less than $3 and Chiquita’s workforce in Honduras was cut by more than half. In several Central American countries, Chiquita has been accused of “pursuing a progressive strategy to weaken union [s] and farm out production to non-union sources” (Rohter). “Latin American countries maintain their competitive edge on the production of this low-margin fruit largely at the expense of poorly treated workers” (Gassama). Ever since the 1990s, Chiquita has run an employee home ownership program in Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. Although it may seem like a innocent gesture on the surface, this program gives Chiquita control over wo