Climate change poses “enormous threat” to banana business

Banana prices will increase during the next few years as a global rise in temperatures makes it even harder for the industry to tackle plant diseases like Fusarium Wilt TR4.

That was the message conveyed to BBC News this week by Pascal Liu, senior economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and a key member of the World Banana

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