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From a mix of adverse weather, soaring production costs and plant disease – the production of bananas is under threat.

Pascal Liu, senior economist at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, said climate impacts posed an “enormous threat” to supply.

So, what can be done to make the banana industry more sustainable?

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  1. Stop growing a clonal mono-culture. This is how the Gros Michel plantations collapsed, if you have only one type of plant that has been bred into sterility and gets cloned or grafted into massive groves, it only takes a single fungal spore of the right type to wipe out the entire cutivar across an entire geographic area.
    We are currently repeating the same mistakes with the Cavendish. What plantations need to do is break up their Cavendish with open spaces and smaller plantings of a different variety or a different crop altogether.

    As for pricing, we can blame that on Eisenhower. The Banana Replublics were facing backlash from the counties they had overthrown and subjugated for over a decade, most of which had taken advantage of their democratic structure to elect leaders that would help the average citizen. Then, right about the time they were going to have to start paying a minimum wage and selling land back to the state and citizens, Eisenhower (at the request of the fruit companies) sent in troops to shoot up all of those "communist regimes" and give power back to the American-held corporations. Even though the companies have not grown beyond needing to be shadow dictatorships manipulating multiple countries to squeeze out profits, Central America is still an absolute mess thanks to all of the corruption that went on for so long.

  2. Why..why didn't the 'banana expert' mentioned all bananas sold in he shops and supermarkets are cloned – the 'Cavendish' banana. This makes them susceptible to disease. I'm very tired of the BBC just extracting the barest and most sensational parts of information about a subject – and discarding the rest. It's like throwing the baby out with the water!

  3. My 2ยข:

    a) Beside climate change and fair pricing, a big threat on the (world) BANANA is a fungi which has no efective preventive method today, this is vital because almost 100% of the world bananas are Cavendish, yes we put all bananas in a single basket.

    b) Fair pricing isn't new, Banana Republic was born from that situation.
    Can you believe some producers denounce them for exceding their export quotas.

    Me: A ๐ŸŒ fan, fto. a country that among many things also (proudly) produces bananas.

  4. โคGood. bananas are no good for you. Bananas contain 6 spoons of sugar. So I am Colombian and live in England don't eat bananas and fruits they are very sugary. Fruitsare for animals.

  5. I live in Saint Lucia. I was a manager who worked on a banana plantation from 1988 to 1995. The introduction of the WTO was one of the biggest disasters that hit our industry. We were made to compete with huge American multinationals in South America like Chiquita, Dole, Del Monte etc. How could we survive? We did not. Smfh

  6. How can production costs be soaring? It's a tree. They grow. Rich people blaming poor people. "These w0&s want $5 a week! Ingrates!! $2 a week is plenty."