Study: Bananas More Resilient to Climate Change than Coffee

Nepal’s coffee growing areas are expected to decline by 2050 because of climate change but banana cultivation could flourish in the same time frame, offsetting those losses, says a new study. A team of scientists from the Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB) in China carried out the study recently published in the journal PLoS One (30 September), which evaluated the potential impact of climate change on Nepal's burgeoning banana and coffee industries until the mid-century.

According to lead author Sailesh Ranjitkar, a scientist at KIB, both bananas and coffee have been identified as potential cash crops in Nepal's recently approved agriculture development strategy, which seeks to transform the country's agriculture sector over the next decade.

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Chris Goldberg

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