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Where the Food Comes From: Bye Bye Bananas Full Episode

September 10, 2024

ELO Life in Durham, N.C. is working to create a banana that can resist the Fusarium oxysporum fungus

Where The Food Comes From travels the country visiting farms and going up and down the supply chain to show all the invisible hands that keep the world fed. WTFCF recently visited Elo Life in Raleigh, NC in May. What is Elo Life? Per CEO Todd Rands, “Fundamentally, Elo is about making nutritious healthy food, making it more affordable, and available to where it is needed the most.” Sounds good right? But here is the best part – they also work at saving crops from extinction.

Two decades ago, a fungus called Fusarium oxysporum began to spread like wildfire throughout the world’s banana producing regions. Now it’s laying waste to Central America. There is no cure. There is no treatment. Banana groves are simply failing left and right. Within a decade, they’ll all be gone. Extinct.

Unless…

Watch Season 5 Episode 3 of Where The Food Comes From to see what modern lab-based approaches Elo Life is taking to solve agricultural problems like saving the banana.

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Where the Food Comes From: Bye Bye Bananas Full Episode

September 10, 2024

Where the Food Comes From: In 10 Years, Bananas Will Be Extinct. Unless…

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