Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Bananas, Volume 1: Cultivation Techniques

Contents
Series list
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Banana production and its challenges
	1 The origin, domestication and dispersal of bananas • Hugo Volkaert
	2 Understanding the banana industry: monoculture and beyond • Dan Koeppel
	3 Banana cultivation in Africa • W. K. Tushemereirwe and J. Kubiriba
	4 Challenges and opportunities for smallholders in banana value chains • William Tinzaara, Dietmar Stoian, Walter Ocimati, Gloria Otieno and Guy Blomme
Part 2: Improving practices across the banana value chain
	5 A functional approach to bunch formation in banana • D. W. Turner and D. J. Gibbs
	6 Banana plant propagation methods • Sharon D. Hamill
	7 Conserving banana germplasm through field genebanks • Mike Smith
	8 Good agricultural practices: an end point or a starting point for more sustainable banana production? • Charles Staver
	9 Challenges in cultivation of bananas in the subtropics • Víctor Galán Saúco
	10 Nutrition and soil management in banana cultivation • Jetse J. Stoorvogel and Rafael A. Segura
	11 Harvesting and packaging of bananas • Juan José Aycart
	12 Ripening systems for bananas • Frits Popma
Part 3: Assessing and improving sustainability
	13 Life cycle assessment and carbon footprint of banana cultivation • Louis Bockel, Laure-Sophie Schiettecatte and Orane Debrune
	14 Sustainable banana cultivation: from standards to multiple solutions • Sietze Vellema and Kees Jansen
	15 Organic banana cultivation and sustainability • Frans Wielemaker
Index