On November 7–8, 2019, Bogotá hosted the regional workshop “Research agenda for the exclusion, prevention and outbreak management of Fusarium TR4 in Musaceae.” Delegations came from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and the Dominican Republic. International centers also took part: Bioversity, CIRAD, CIAT and the University of Florida. AGROSAVIA led the project, with INIAP (Ecuador) as co-executing institution and IDB Invest as associate. The starting point: Latin America and the Caribbean produces 28% of the world’s Musaceae and 99% of all exported plantains.

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