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When the founders of EARTH University bought the land on which to build a campus, the property included a commercial banana farm.

Concrete Dreams spent a month in Rwanda and the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo shooting videos on marketing, nutritional and crop management

The area encompassing Sulawesi, the Maluku Islands and the Lesser Sunda Islands forms a triangle located at the intersection of the distribution of Musa acuminata subspecies whose genetic signature has been found in many cultivated bananas.

In the South Pacific country of Vanuatu, the national dish is a hearty pudding called laplap.

For the first ever ProMusa photo contest, a panel of four judges selected the 10 best photos among the more than 300 received.

An archipelago nation situated to the east of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, like its neighbour, is host to a rich diversity of bananas.

The market for ornamental bananas will soon have a new player when Embrapa, the Brazilian agricultural research corporation, starts releasing its creations.

Growing organic bananas for export is a booming business in Peru.

A Bioversity study documents and assesses the performance of the International Transit Centre (ITC) in conserving and distributing Musa germplasm.

Dan Koeppel, the author of Banana: The fate of the fruit that changed the world, travelled to the now mostly deserted Yangambi research station, after which the Yangambi km 5 banana is named.