“Diversity for Monoculture: The United Fruit Company and Agricultural Research”

This talk examines the company’s changing relationship to agricultural research and the multiple, shifting, and often contradictory meanings of diversity in the context of business, botany, economics, and agriculture in the twentieth century. In introducing oil palm to Central America, United Fruit’s crop diversification project ultimately served to replace on.

Presented by Dr. Megan Raby, UT-Austin.