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Climate change is impacting the growing season of tea plants — here’s how farmers are adapting to save your favorite cuppa 🍵
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In partnership with Eat Forum, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and the IKEA Foundation.
Tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world, right after water. But the tasty drink is under threat by our changing climate. Changes in temperature and rainfall patterns not only affect the growing season of tea plants, but also the flavor and health benefits of tea. Climate change is pushing rainfall in certain tea growth regions to the extremes, leading to an overall decrease in precipitation but with more instances of drought and heavy rain. But drought and floods aren’t the only issue, pests are too. Higher temperatures allow insects that attack tea plants to survive winter, giving them more time to reproduce. Climate change has pushed tea farmers to start to adapt agroforestry techniques and grow tea plants using different methods so they can be more resilient to climate shocks like droughts and floods.
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Posting from Assam- the first place of tea plantation outside Oriental China by the erstwhile British. Pray to the tea god
Tea is also cause of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Who is this beautiful man??
Who cares I drink coffee anyway, and thats going to be fine…
We are all doomed!
40% of plants face extinction from climate change. They can’t move or change quickly enough. The crops at the greatest risk of extinction are coffee, chocolate and avocados, wheat, maize, rice, soybeans, grape wine, strawberry, stone fruits, maple syrups, chickpea, banana and peanuts. But the long list also includes honey, seafood, strawberries, wild bean, squash, chili pepper, husk tomato, ginger, prunes and apples. In the short-term decreasing yields suggest increasing prices until loss of commercial viability. Good work team!
Why don’t humons just use HAARP weather change technology to mitegate droughts. Oh wait, humons could use it to further scare people to pay higher taxes to save their tea! Not genius, just an obvious Mr. Burns style power grab 😂
You can make a pleasant hot beverage out of almost all non toxic herbs and spices .
Talk about 1st world problems.
*Never Forget
Wow this is really pathetic
I’m not British so I don’t care
You literally can’t trace back any natural disasters or change to humans lol
Really fear monger on anything huh ?