Bananas

A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild …

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IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 22 February 2024 English

This report outlines and compares various policy measures that Costa Rica, Gabon, Indonesia, Peru, and Rwanda have put in place to address deforestation.

present in Costa Rica in various sectors, including bananas, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, tea, and sugarcane (Meier


ICP: Institute for Community Prosperity · 30 January 2024 English

Add to this the killings of thousands in each of the conflicts in Ethiopia, Myanmar and Yemen; the civil war in Sudan, with at least 9,000 killed and another 5.6 …

FUTURE OF THE Climate “Absolutely Gobsmackingly Bananas”: The blue marble spaceship we all call home had a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0 forest cover gone in a single season. Gobsmackingly bananas indeed. In Alberta alone this year, over 1,000


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 30 November 2023 English

This report analyzes the extent to which producers are included in the governance of agricultural standards and recommends ways for standard-setting organizations to give producers opportunities to help steer their …

Aquaculture (tilapia, African catfish), agriculture (bananas, cereals, cocoa, coconut [fresh], coffee, cotton (Rainforest Alliance, 2021) Certifiable products: Bananas, cereals, cocoa, coconut (fresh), coffee, flowers


Agricultural Policy Research Networks · 5 November 2023 English

Notwithstanding the enviable position of the oil sector in the Nigerian economy over the past three decades, the agricultural sector is arguably the most important sector of the economy. [...] …

cowpea, beans, sweet potatoes, millets, plantains, bananas, rice, sorghum, and a variety of fruits and vegetables


AIC: Agricultural Institute of Canada · 1 October 2023 English

causes. [...] Yet, despite their affordability and resilience, the starring role of roots, tubers and bananas in Africa’s climate-smart food systems of the future is not guaranteed and relies on the kind of

resilience, the starring role of roots, tubers and bananas in Africa’s climate-smart food systems of the future


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 30 September 2023 English

The CCPA founded For a minimum donation of $35 a year, we are happy to provide you with a the Monitor magazine in 1994 to share print edition of the …

injus- U.S. biotech and agribusiness lobbyists went bananas. tice in the U.S. and Canadian attacks on Mexico’s


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 13 September 2023 English

This report explores how voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) are being used in trade policy to increase the trade of more sustainable products between developing countries. This can lead to improved …

to sugar, citrus fruits such as mandarins, and bananas (POETCom, 2020). IISD.org/ssi 19 South–South Trade cashews), spices, or fruits and vegetables (i.e., bananas, tomatoes, and carrots) to specialty stores, hotels


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 September 2023 English

Michael Ondaatje has achieved international prominence and recognition in a way that few other writers have, let alone Canadian writers. This popularity is most pronounced for works of historical fiction …

associated with Kong: “(Is it significant that I eat bananas as I write this?)” (cp, 39). By identifying himself


DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 August 2023 English

A journalist travels to the South on a mysterious mission to report on recent strikes in an offshore oil rig. Defending himself against unknown enemies, he spirals into a hallucinatory …

Around me shards of glass, broken plates, crushed bananas. I pulled noodles out of my beard. The crowd had


School of Public Policy, University of Calgary · 14 August 2023 English

We describe the interactions, in the form of contradictions, affinities and partnerships, of oil and conservation efforts and the implications of the simultaneous prioritization for conservation and climate change goals. …

extractive economy is based on rubber, cocoa, coffee, bananas and, in the last decades, oil. These commodities


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