Coffee Prices Are Soaring, but Growers Aren’t Celebrating | Climate change is behind the windfall gains, and growers are worried about whether they can adapt.
Climate change is behind the windfall gains, and growers are worried about whether they can adapt.
Spoiler alert: they can't!
Starbucks has been spending tens of millions of dollars a year trying to figure out how to grow coffee in non-traditional coffee growing regions like hot lowlands where it doesn't get cool at night.
These farmers will be abandoned by their colonial overlords, and replaced with new farmers in different areas.
How climate change threatens coffee production | DW Documentary
There's some great documentaries about stenophylla, resdiscovering a forgotten strain of coffee that's resistant to heat.
Coffee and climate change: rediscovering stenophylla
In the video Dr Aaron Davis describes coffee as the "canary in the coalmine, as the litmus for climate change, particularly for woody crops like coffee, cocoa, tea, wine. Crops that have to stay in the ground a long time. And what we're seeing is that the issues facing coffee also affect many other woody perennial crops"
Tasting The Lost Species That Might Save Coffee - James Hoffman
Saving Coffee From Extinction | Planet Fix | BBC Earth Science
We'll probably see some issues with stonefruit too:
