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Ecuador bananas, the most-exported fruit
Guayaquil, Équateur2.17°S 79.92°W
computed criticality17/100
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Ecuador ≈world's leading banana exporter, ≈¼ of exports (FAO 2023)
2023Fault line
Ecuador is the world's leading banana exporter, the most-exported fruit on the planet, shipped mostly from Guayaquil. The lock is twofold, a single origin for a large share of Europe and a Cavendish monoculture threatened by the Fusarium TR4 fungus, against which no established defence exists.
Actors
Reybanpac
Dole
Chiquita
AEBE (Ecuadorian banana exporters association)
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