Banana
Latin America; The Caribbean
The world’s largest producers of bananas are China and India.[1] Scientists have reported a general increase in banana yields globally because of climate change since 1961, but these gains are likely to lost by mid-century.[2] Climate change is responsible for an increase in risk of infection by Black Leaf Streak Disease in the Caribbean and Latin America because of warming conditions and increased wetness of leaves. The disease is detrimental to global banana production, and if left untreated, yields of infected plant are reduced by around 80 percent[3].
References:
[1] “EST: Banana Facts,” accessed January 28, 2021, http://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-commodities/bananas/bananafacts/en/.[2] Varum Varma and Daniel P. Bebber, “Climate Change Impacts on Banana Yields around the World,” Nature Climate Change 9, no. 10 (October 2019): 752–57, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0559-9.
[3] Bebber, Daniel P. (2019). Climate change effects on Black Sigatoka disease of banana. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, (1775), 20180269. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0269.
