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Information on international fruits market and more particularly on bananas, citrus fruits as well as other tropical fruit and vegetable products are updated on a regular basis within the framework of a partnership established with the "Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement" (Cirad). We would like to thank Mr. Denis Loeillet, FruiTrop editor, who graciously agreed to make this monthly report available to Infocomm. For further information, please refer to the Cirad Internet website.
| Characteristics | Description and technical characteristics Origin and history |
| Crop | Banana harvest |
| Quality |
Banana quality standards |
| Uses |
Food consumption |
| Market | Banana Production Banana Exports Banana Imports Banana Trade Patterns |
| Marketing chain | Banana marketing chain |
| Companies | Banana companies |
| Technology | Research and Development Posthaverst technology-Handling, transport and ripening |
| Prices | Banana Terms of Trade Retail prices Banana production costs Banana price links |
| Economic Policies | International banana market access The EU Banana Regime and the WTO Dispute Settlement International cooperation on bananas Exporting countries national policies |
Selected
Sources of Statistics
FAOSTAT Database
UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics
UNCTAD Trains
UNCTAD
Commodity Price Bulletin
Ecuador,
SICA
INIBAP
Viceministerio
de Comercio Exterior, Panama
St.
Lucian Statistics
EU-ACP Statistical Analysis
Philippines National
Statistics Coordination Board
Philippines
Department of Agriculture
Gobierno
de Canarias. Producción y destino
Instituto Canario de Estadística
Hawaii Agriculture Statistics Service, annual
USDA
Reports
USDA
Weekly Shipments
USDA Economics and Statistics
System
ERS Fruit and Tree Nuts
ERS Food
Consumption
ERS
Supply and Utilization
Market Ag
EU Agriculture
Fruits et Legumes
Japan External Trade Organization, Jetro
Some relevant publications among the numerous existing publications related to bananas are mentioned below:
- The international banana trade, Julian Roche, Woodhead Publishing Limited, 1998
- World Markets for Organic Fruit and Vegetables - Opportunities for Developing Countries in the Production and Export of Organic Horticultural Products, CTA, FAO, ITC, Rome, 2001
- World Conference on Horticultural Research Conference Documents
- The Banana Chain: The Macro-Economics of the Banana Trade, Adelien van de Kasteele, on behalf of IUF, 1998
- Bananas: The ‘Green Gold’ of the TNCs, Anne-Claire Chambron, The UK Food Group) 1999
- Straightening the Bent World of the Banana, Anne-Claire Chambron, EFTA, 2000
- The Big Banana Split, New Internationalist issue 317 - October 1999
- Banana Exports from Latin America and the Caribbean; the market, the evolving policy framework and development options, FAO, IICA, WB, 1998
- El mercado mundial del banano, Rafael Cartay, Rev. Fac. Agron. (LUZ). 1997, 14: 3-20
- Estudio
de caso: El Mercado Europeo del Banano y la OMC, SELA, 1998
Fresh Fruit and Vegetables, EU Market Survey 2002, Centre for the Promotion
of Imports from Developing Countries
:- La banane en 2004, bilan de campagne nationale", Service des Nouvelles des Marchés (SNM), Ministère Français de l'Agriculture, de l'Alimentation, de la Pèche et de la Ruralité.
- Fresh
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing and Trade Information (Roberta Cook)
Food
market structures: ERS produce markets project, Economic Research Service,
US Department of Agriculture
International
organizations
FAO
Intergovernmental Group on Bananas and Tropical Fruits
International Network
for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain, INIBAP
Common Fund for Commodities
International
Trade Centre, Fruit and Vegetables
Caribbean Banana Exporters Association
SICE
(Organization of American States-Foreign Trade Information System)
Inter-American
Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture,
IICA
European Centre for Development Policy
Management
Barnesa, Banana
Research Network for Eastern & Southern Africa
Centre International pour la Recherche
Agronomique et le Developpement, CIRAD, Banana, Plantain and Pineapple
Programme
International
Plant Genetic Resources Institute
CAB International
International Society
of Horticultural Science (International Conference on Banana and Plantain
for Africa)
International Institute
for Tropical Agriculture
COLEACP,
Europe-Africa-Caribbean-Pacific-Liaison Committee
for the promotion of ACP horticultural exports
Associations
International Banana Association
Produce Marketing Association
United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable
Association
Canadian Produce Marketing Association
European Fresh Produce Association
Fresh Produce Consortium
Euro
Retailer Produce Working Group (EUREP)
European Fruit Surveyors Network
Perishables Group
Banana
information and news
Sopisco News
CTA, Banana Recent Developments
Agrisol.
Infos marche banane
The Packer On
Line
Fruitecom
Fruit
on-line
Infoagro
CNN
Forbes
BBC
Banana.com
Fruit & Vegetable
Project
Five a day
National
links
What
follows is a list of interesting links to national entities or documents
related to banana, organized in a regional or in a country basis:
Academia
- University of California
Davis
- Postharvest
Technology Research and Information Centre
- Horticultural
Business Information Network, University of Tenesse
- National Food
and Agricultural Policy Project, Arizona State University East
- University
of Hawaii
Mr. Denis Loeillet issues on a regular basis "FruiTrop", a report on fruits market including bananas, citrus fruits as well as other tropical fruit and vegetable products, which is available on the Infocomm portal. The objective is to promote information exchanges and transparency on the fruits market.
This profile was last updated on March 18, 2008
