Network for banana and plantain improvement

The Bioversity LAC regional network for banana and plantain operates to update the global and regional research and development agenda for these crops, to facilitate the generation of global public goods through projects in priority themes and to improve access to user oriented knowledge products linked to the global public goods.

The FONTAGRO Project aims to improve plantain productivity on farm through technical innovations, to strengthen capacity and infrastructure for plantain processing, improve business organization among small growers and facilitate a knowledge platform for production, processing and marketing of smallholder plantain. This represents a fairly uniquely broad combination of objectives that aim at livelihoods improvement (as compared to more traditional work of the network).

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Case study members:
Charles Staver, Bioversity International
Claudine Picq, Bioversity International
Hildegard Garming, Bioversity International
David Brown, Bioversity International
Luis Pocasangre, Bioversity International