Bananas and Food Security - Bioversity International

Acknowledgements
INIBAP is grateful to all the participants of the International Symposium “Bananas and
Food Security/Les productions bananières: un enjeu économique majeur pour la
sécurité alimentaire” for their contribution to these proceedings.
INIBAP would especially like to thank:
• the Centre de recherches régionales sur bananiers et plantains (CRBP), who took the
initiative to hold the meeting and contributed material and staff resources to ensure
the workshop’s success, and the Centre de coopération internationale en recherche
agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), who played a key role in ensuring the
scientific quality of the meeting.
• The Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the European
Union, the Coopération Française (CF) for their financial support for this event, and
the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for its cooperation
and input.
• In addition, INIBAP would like to express its gratitude to the Government of Cameroon
for hosting this symposium and thanks the members of the Scientific Committee
for ensuring the high quality of presentations made at this symposium.
• C. Picq, E. Fouré and E.A. Frison for their conscientious work as scientific editors of
the proceedings,
• D. Conaré and A. Scaife for the technical editing of these proceedings,
• E. Lipman who undertook the last proofreading of the proceedings.
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