Assessing future impacts of tropical cyclones on global banana production
Sophie Kaashoek,Žiga Malek,Nadia Bloemendaal,and Marleen C. de Ruiter
Sophie Kaashoek
Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Žiga Malek
Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Research and Development Weather and Climate Models (RDKW), Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Utrechtseweg 297, 3731 GA, De Bilt, the Netherlands
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.
Tropical storms are expected to get stronger all over the world, and this will have a big impact...