Chapter 9: A Better Banana

1. All interviews done by me in Kenya from February 9–18, 2011, unless otherwise noted.

2. Shabd S. Acharya and Mary G. Alton Mackey, “Socio-economic Impact Assessment of the Tissue Culture Banana Industry in Kenya” (Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International; Nairobi, Kenya; Johannesburg, South Africa; Washington, DC, 2008).

3. Interview in Washington, April 27, 2011.

4. Jay Shankar, “Janus-Backed Jain Irrigation Plans to Build a Plant in Africa, Mundra Says,” Bloomberg News, December 13, 2010.

5. Charlotte Hebebrand, “Leveraging Private Sector Investment in Developing Country Agrifood Systems” (Chicago Council on Global Affairs, May 2011).

6. For an extensive discussion of this, see Aneel Karnani, Fighting Poverty ...

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