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Styles, Megan A.
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Rose industry -- Social aspects -- Kenya -- Naivasha.
Rose industry -- Environmental aspects -- Kenya -- Naivasha.
Floriculture -- Kenya -- Naivasha.
Naivasha (Kenya) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Naivasha (Kenya) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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Styles, Megan A.
Rose industry -- Social aspects -- Kenya -- Naivasha.
Rose industry -- Environmental aspects -- Kenya -- Naivasha.
Floriculture -- Kenya -- Naivasha.
Naivasha (Kenya) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Naivasha (Kenya) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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Roses from Kenya :
labor
,
environment
, and the
global
trade
in
cut
flowers
/ Megan A. Styles.
by
Styles, Megan A.
University of Washington Press, 2019.
Call #:
306.0967 S938r
Subjects
Rose industry -- Social aspects -- Kenya -- Naivasha.
Rose industry -- Environmental aspects -- Kenya -- Naivasha.
Floriculture -- Kenya -- Naivasha.
Naivasha (Kenya) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Naivasha (Kenya) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Series
Culture, place, and nature.
ISBN:
9780295746500 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Labor
,
environment
, and the
global
trade
in
cut
flowers
Description:
xvii, 232 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"Kenya supplies more than 35 percent of the fresh-cut roses and other
flowers
sold annually in the European Union. This industry - which employs at least 90,000 workers, most of whom are women - is lucrative but enduringly controversial. More than half the
flowers
are grown near the shores of Lake Naivasha, a freshwater lake northwest of Nairobi recognized as a Ramsar site, a wetland of international importance. Critics decry the environmental side effects of floriculture, and human rights activists demand better wages and living conditions for workers. In this rich portrait of Kenyan floriculture, Megan Styles presents the point of view of local workers and investigates how the industry shapes Kenyan livelihoods, landscapes, and politics. She investigates the experiences and perspectives of low-wage farmworkers and the more elite actors whose lives revolve around floriculture, including farm managers and owners, Kenyan officials, and the human rights and environmental activists advocating for reform. By exploring these perspectives together, Styles reveals the complex and contradictory ways that rose farming shapes contemporary Kenya. She also shows how the rose industry connects Kenya to the world, and how Kenyan actors perceive these connections. As a key space of encounter, Lake Naivasha is a synergistic center where many actors seek to solve broader Kenyan social and environmental problems using the
global
flows of people, information, and money generated by floriculture."--From publisher.
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