Climate challenges for Costa Rica

The Costa Rican banana industry is getting serious about combating climate change following yet another very dry summer. Contrary weather has brought an increasing amount of damaging pests to the Central American country’s banana-producing regions, so exporters’ association Corbana - the National Banana Corporation - is making it its mission to solve the problem, while maintaining the high-quality standards the UK and European markets have come to expect. Elizabeth O'Keefe