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“How Trade Liberalization Affects A Sugar Dependent Community”

The book explores how the changes in the European Union’s sugar regime impacted a sugar-dependent community in Jamaica, as well examines the response of the Government over time to this scenario. Listen to the convo below:

BOOK: 

How Trade Liberalization Affects a Sugar Dependent Community in Jamaica: Global Action, Local Impact 

Located within the plantation economy model of the “New World Group” of The University of the West Indies, this book explores how the changes in the European Union’s sugar regime impacted a sugar-dependent community in Jamaica.  It details how the end of centuries of preferential treatment of Jamaican sugar in the British/European market in 2005 worsened the social and environmental realities of the Monymusk community in Clarendon, Jamaica, which depended on the sugar industry.  

In describing the response of the Jamaican Government to the changes in the EU Sugar Regime, and the subsequent roll-out of an EU-funded adaptation strategy, the author provides some unique perspectives on this process, drawing on his experience as a senior civil servant involved in the process.  The book also highlights the continued social and environmental impact on the area since 2015.  

The book concludes with a discussion on the empirical findings and how those findings contribute to the debates on the dependency perpetuated by the Plantation Economy Model of development and the failure of neo-liberal influence government policies, as well as the lack of imagination of post-independent governments to break this dependency and deliver on the promise of independence.

About the Author

Donovan Stanberry is Campus Registrar of the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. In 2004, he was appointed Jamaica’s Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Land and Environment, from where he was transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands in April 2006, as Permanent Secretary. When the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries was merged with the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce in March 2016, Mr. Stanberry remained Permanent Secretary of the merged Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture, and Fisheries, until April 2019. 

During his long career in the civil service, Donovan Stanberry represented the Government of Jamaica at many international forums in the areas of water policy and management, environment, agriculture, MSME development, industry, and commerce. He has played a major and sometimes pioneering role in the formulation of policies and legislation in the subject areas under his various ministries’ portfolio. In recognition of his outstanding public service, Dr. Stanberry, also a Justice of the Peace, was conferred with the Order of Distinction (Commander Class) in 2018, by the Government of Jamaica. 

How Trade Liberalization Affects A Sugar Dependent Community

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