Join us for the upcoming webinar on TR4-Resistant Banana Varieties which will be held on Tuesday, 17 May 15:30-18:00 CEST. This webinar is part of a series of capacity building and awareness raising events organized by the World Banana Forum and its TR4 Global Network. The previous events were focused on...

The webinar, co-organized by the World Banana Forum (WBF) and FAO Mesoamerica, aimed to provide an overview of banana varieties tolerant or resistant to TR4, their agronomic performance, and the challenges related to their introduction and acceptance.Tackling TR4 and other important banana diseases in an efficient way is critical to...

By analyzing agri-food value chains, policy makers and researchers are able to better understand how economic, social and environmental dimensions are intertwined. This is an important step, which allows for identification of areas for potential improvement along an agri-food value chain.EX-ACT Value Chain (EX-ACT VC) is derived from the Food...

The report provides a summary of the sessions held with stakeholders of the global banana industry during WBF events at Fruit Logisitica (February 2020) to discuss key priority issues, including: global pre-competitive cooperation, climate change adaptation and mitigation, TR4, and occupational health and safety.  

In recent decades, concerns have grown around the environmental impact of the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector, more specifically on the impact of agricultural activities on biodiversity. Since the introduction of the Aichi targets, released by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2010, the United Nations...