Ecuador’s banana sector is crucial for the national economy, employment and thecountry trade balance. Both the economic, social and environmental implicationsof banana value chains challenges present policy choices and trade-offs inEcuador. Raising productivity of the sector, improving fair distribution of valueadded among the private actors (workers, farmers and exporters), and...

The WBF’s Secretariat engaged in fundraising activities after the Second Conference of the WBF in Guayaquil. Some of the activities include: reactivating the Task Force on fundraising (TF01), and development of a fundraising strategy.

Countries report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals from all sectors via national GHG Inventories, submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in accordance with international climate policy agreements and technical guidelines developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The agriculture sector represents...

In 2013, Good Stuff International (GSI) carried out a Water Footprint Assessment for the banana importer Agrofair and its foundation TASTE (TechnicalAssistance for Sustainable Trade & Environment) of banana production by smallfarmers in Peru and Ecuador, using the methodology of the Water Footprint Network(WFN). The objective was to investigate if...

The virtual conference on banana Fusarium wilt in Africa, jointly organised by the FAO, Stellenbosch University and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) with the financial support from the European Union, is intended to raise awarenes s about the importance of banana Fusarium wilt disease in Africa, and to update...