News, blogs, analyses and announcements on bananas

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News and analysis

Linnaeus’s banana legacy
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Anne Vézina Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Domestication Taxonomy
Linnaeus FGB 70px How Linnaeus inadvertently muddled the taxonomy of bananas when he gave Latin binomials to two edible bananas.
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Modernizing Simmonds and Shepherd’s legacy
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Anne Vézina Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Domestication Taxonomy
Mixing Strategies 70px The nomenclature system specific to edible bananas is the only alternative to Latin binomials, but it needs tweaking and advocates to promote it.
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The impact of extreme weather events on the price of bananas
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Anne Vézina Monday, 23 July 2018
Markets Trade Climate change
Dunkerke UGPBAN 70px A study explores the impact of extreme weather events on the price of bananas in the French market.
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Peru’s best kept banana secret
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Anne Vézina Wednesday, 19 June 2019
Diversity Domestication
Isla Banana Pulp 70px
'Isla' is one of the most sought-after bananas in Peru. Yet, little is known about it.
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Pesticides out, biodiversity in
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Anne Vézina Monday, 21 May 2018
Cover crop Agroecology
Biodiversity 70px
Biodiversity returns to the banana fields of Guadeloupe and Martinique as growers adopt agroecological approaches.
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Collecting bananas in Bougainville
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Anne Vézina Monday, 22 May 2017
Diversity Conservation Pacific
Bougainville 70px
A collecting mission to Bougainville consolidates the reputation of the New Guinea region as an exceptional hotspot of banana diversity.
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What's in store for organic bananas?
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Frans Wielemaker Monday, 27 May 2019
Organic bananas
Organic Bananas 70px The demand for organic bananas has grown exponentially, but can they ever become mainstream?
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Taming the scientific literature on banana diseases
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David Robert Jones Thursday, 28 February 2019
Books
Handbook Cover 70px The editor of Diseases of banana, abacá and enset blogs about the challenges of updating his popular book.
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TR4 and China’s boom and bust banana sector
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Robin Thiers Thursday, 10 January 2019
TR4 China Biosecurity
Porters 70px The authors draw on fieldwork in China to show how TR4 shaped relations between capital, land and labour.
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