January 26, 2025
Global banana consumption could change if a fungus continues to devastate the plantations that grow the Cavendish.
Global banana consumption could change if a fungus continues to devastate the plantations that grow the Cavendish.
Echoing what happened during the 1950s, banana problems with a spreading fungus mean we will again need a new kind of banana.
Threatened by a rapidly spreading fungus, our banana supply will have to change or it will massively shrink.
Because our banana supply could be obliterated, we will have to adjust to a replacement that might taste somewhat different.