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Major banana exporters could face ‘60% drop’ in growing area due to warming - Carbon Brief

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Latin America and the Caribbean are responsible for 80% of the world’s banana exports.

The $ 25bn banana industry provides employment for more than one million workers globally.

The study finds rising temperatures will drive a 60% reduction in the land area suitable for large-scale banana plantations in the region by 2080 .

Farmers will need to adapt through implementing irrigation, implementing drought-resilient varieties of banana and shifting their growing regions.

Central America , coastal Brazil and the northern and southern borders of the Amazon basin are the most suitable, they say.

Factoring in socioeconomic factors, such as population density and distance to a port, shrinks the suitable area’ to 990,000km2 .

Colombia and Venezuela will become “almost entirely suboptimal for export production”.

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