Bananas are a unique commodity in so many ways. They are perishable and tropical, and yet we ship them great distances with great risk to arrive in shopping carts ripe and ready to eat. When fairly compensated, this can mean regular weekly income for farmers, as opposed to waiting half a year or more to harvest annual crops. Juan Oviedo, president of Peruvian banana farming co-op Río y Valle, reflects on how this provides a pathway for change for the next generation. “We grew cotton, we grew corn. Then bananas came, and things improved. Because we now have biweekly income or weekly income to cover the family’s weekly needs. It gives me great joy to see that many people have economic stability to be able to send their children to the city to study.”