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Bananas and, particularly tropical fruits, constitute a significant source of economic growth, income, food security and nutrition for the rural areas of many developing countries.
The 2019-2028 medium-term outlook for globalproduction and trade in bananas and tropical fruits wasproduced for the Intergovernmental Group on Bananasand Tropical Fruits, which is a subsidiary body of theCommittee on Commodity Problems (CCP).It has been prepared by the Team on InternationalInvestment and Tropical Fruits, Trade and MarketDivision, Food and Agriculture...
The Banana Market Review is issued on an annualbasis to Members and Observers of the Sub-Group onBananas of the Intergovernmental Group on Bananasand Tropical Fruits, which is a subsidiary body of theCommittee on Commodity Problems (CCP).It is prepared by the Team on International Investmentand Tropical Fruits, Trade and Market Division,...
This Commodity Focus is an excerpt from the November 2019 edition of the FAO Food Outlook. It discusses the recent spread and potential future impact of the disease on the global banana trade.
Commercial banana production has been subject to intensive farming techniques since the late nineteenth century, with the emergence of large-scale trade from Central American and Caribbean banana producing countries to the United States and Europe. To cater for rapidly growing demand in mostly far distant import markets, producers identified the...