Food Systems Lab

This report documents a sustainability assessment for banana production in Ecuador. The overarching goal of this assessment was to aid the Ecuadorian banana industry in improving its sustainability footprint for the entire industry—at a national level.  The starting point for improving system‐wide sustainability was to conduct a baseline assessment of the current sustainability situation to identify and measure a suite of indicators for use as a benchmark in both guiding strategies and measuring progress. This assessment was designed to review the state of the banana sector and correlated activities within Ecuador and not function as a comparative assessment against other countries or actors – which would require a similar assessment for each actor.