Assessing future impacts of tropical cyclones on global banana production

Kaashoek, Sophie; Malek, Žiga; Bloemendaal, Nadia; de Ruiter, Marleen C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1963-2025

Articles | Volume 25, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1963-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1963-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 25, issue 6

Research article

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16 Jun 2025

Research article |

| 16 Jun 2025

Assessing future impacts of tropical cyclones on global banana production

Sophie Kaashoek, Žiga Malek, Nadia Bloemendaal, and Marleen C. de Ruiter

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1963-2025-supplement

Data sets

STORM tropical cyclone wind speed return periods Nadia Bloemendaal et al. https://doi.org/10.4121/12705164.v3

STORM Climate Change synthetic tropical cyclone tracks Nadia Bloemendaal et al. https://doi.org/10.4121/14237678.v2

Global Spatially-Disaggregated Crop Production Statistics Data for 2020 Version 1.0.0 International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SWPENT

FAOSTAT, Crops and livestock products statistics FAO https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL

Crop statistics FAO-STAT http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QC

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Tropical storms are expected to get stronger all over the world, and this will have a big impact on people, buildings and important activities like growing bananas. Already, in different parts of the world, banana farms are being hurt by these storms, which makes banana prices go up and affects the people who grow them. We are not sure how these storms will affect bananas everywhere in the future. We assessed what happened to banana farms during storms in different parts of the world.