Increasingly, companies recognize the need to plan for climate change to mitigate risk and realize commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or other sustainability targets. Food and beverage companies in particular seek to evaluate the physical risks and, in some cases, opportunities associated with climate change within their supply...

More than 161 PDFs have been added to Musalit after getting permission from the International Society of Horticultural Sciences (ISHS) and the Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD) to make open access the pre-2002 PDFs of articles on banana published in the Fruits journal. We invite you to browse the Fruits articles on...

Data on trade volumes published in this statistical compendium were compiled from: the responses to the annual questionnaire of the FAOIntergovernmental Sub-Group on Bananas (2007-2016); data from the UN Comtrade database; and secondary data from desk research. Pricedata were collected from several official sources, as respectively stated in the footnotes....

Banana is one of the world’s most popular fruits.1 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has identified it as the most exported fresh fruit in the world and an essential source of income for thousands of rural homes in developing countries.2 But banana production requires the...

The Third Global Conference of the World Banana Forum (WBF) was held at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland, on 8 and 9 November 2017. Over 300 persons representing a wide range of stakeholders from 38 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Europe and...