Two weeks ago, at a conference in South Africa, scientists met to
discuss how to contain a deadly banana disease outbreak in nearby
Mozambique, Africa. At fault was a fungus that continues its march
around the planet. In recent years, it has spread across Asia and
Australia, devastating plants there that bear the signature yellow
supermarket fruit.
The international delegation of researchers shared their own approaches
to the malady, hoping to arrive at some strategy to insulate Mozambique
and the rest of Africa: a continent where
bananas are essential to the lives of millions. They left the Cape Town-based meeting with an air of optimism.
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