The ongoing banana crisis

I've said it before, but the agricultural banana crisis is serious business, because bananas are big business.

This msn.com article describes the full range of problems:

The world's bananas are under attack

The problems are a fungus attacking the Cavendish banana (which is the one in U.S. supermarkets far and wide)  and a bacterial disease attacking bananas in East Africa, where they are a major staple (but not the Cavendish variety).

Genetic engineering may come to the aid of the banana, particularly for the bacterial disease attacking the cooking bananas in Africa.