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Home Agribusiness The world’s bananas are at risk. A volcanic island might protect them.

The world’s bananas are at risk. A volcanic island might protect them.

March 28, 2025

Pushing back flaps of yellowing banana leaves, Moisés Pulido trudges through a layer of dusty soil covering his plantation on the coast of La Palma. Under the blinding sun, batches of bananas are just about visible under the treetops, nestled together in lime-green bunches.In late 2021, when the Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted on the western…

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