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Climate change could halve the amount of land suitable for coffee production by 2050. In a bid to save one of the world’s most popular drinks, many people are busy experimenting with more resilient coffee varieties and sustainable growing methods.
In Uganda, about 1.8 million smallholders make their living growing coffee. Coffee beans are one of the East African country’s most important exports. But droughts, torrential rain, and pest damage are increasing problems. The most common types of coffee, Arabica and Robusta, are at risk because they need stable temperatures. That’s why Davis Kuloba and other farmers are now pinning their hopes on a wild type of coffee, Liberica, which appears to be more climate-resilient and resistant to pests. However, not everyone is convinced by its taste. There’s still more work to be done to improve how its cultivated and processed.
In the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, a cooperative is growing coffee under the shade of other trees. This model runs counter to conventional, industrial-scale coffee plantations. It’s hoped that this strategy, known as agroforestry, will help future-proof coffee production. More and more coffee roasting companies in Germany are showing an interest in alternative forms of cultivation. The industry is changing, thanks to the rise of resilient bean varieties, sustainable cultivation, and fairer trade conditions. Coffee — fit for the future.
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जलवायु परिवर्तन का सच – क्या हम विनाश की ओर बढ़ रहे हैं? #climatechange
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This American fastest long-range reconnaissance aircraft flying at an altitude of 26,000 meters at Mach 3.5 carries 46,254 liters of fuel. It consumes 21,000 liters per hour of flight, and the cost of one hour of flight is $18,000. The average EU country with population around 38 Milion people uses yearly – 28 million cubic meters. That means per person in the scale of year it is burned 760 liters of fuel – I ask, who is really polluting the planet? Why is there an organized ecological charade that indoctrinates people with nonsense, making them believe they are the ones responsible for climate change, and therefore must be taxed for it?"
This emphasizes the disparity between individual fuel consumption and the massive fuel requirements of a high-speed aircraft like the SR-71 Blackbird, questioning the focus of environmental policies on individual contributions rather than larger-scale industrial or military activities
STFU about climate Change corrupted sell out
I'm trying to use biblical practices for my fruit trees. I wonder if the same principles apply to coffee.
Contemplating quitting coffee while sipping on my morning coffee.
Is that Omah Lay playing in the background?
The climate change is a fake
it does not exist, but the manipulation of clime is true.
Its insane the level of
Stupidity that liberals have injected into society now everything is a problem and only for the rich lol insane how dumb europe is and how fast usa
Is fallowing
The best coffee is from Colombia
Liberica is rare?! It's common in my area.
When I was a kid in Holualoa, Hawai'i, there were all kinds of different trees (banana, macadamia, avocado, etc.) and plants (ginger, ferns, pineapples etc.) growing amongst the coffee trees.
It seems to evade a lot of people in the Documentation that there is something like a world market for coffee. The price of coffee is currently low not because of exploitation and several other ideologically based factors mentioned in the report, but because there were huge centrally planned coffee producing programs put into action in several States, especially in Vietnam in the past, which swamped the market with coffee which led to lower prices. Whenever world wide coffee production goes down, prices go up. Everybody can look it up on the international exchanges (here best Chicago). The documentary would benefit if it concentrated on the subject and not woke expectations. "Hamburg profited from Colonialism" – what does that have to do with the topic?, just to mention one example. By the way, during the last 60 years coffee was supposed to be on the way out several times and Bananas, and Tomatoes, and so on). Just the stated reasons sounded different. Today everything is "Climate Change".
It is all about how you can make more money. This is what you are concerned about. If you cannot make money from the goods
Apparently 20% of Ethiopias exports is coffee, I wonder how this is possible considering the country is outside of the growing belt?
Immortal caffeine engine
80's cool aero club bars chocolate
What a load of BS. Bourgeois Germans apparently feel guilty for being rich enough to willingly pay €5 for bourgeois coffee. So ridiculous to keep mentioning race and colonialism — eg that the port of Hamburg is colonial. Colonialism is nothing more than modernising primitive countries so that they can profit from trade. If it wasn’t beneficial for Ecuadorian farmers to grow coffee, they would grow something else.
The bourgeois Germans are just trying to profit off the coffee business while assuaging their fake guilt with a load of socialistic language. Andreas says he doesn’t like middlemen so that he can position himself as the new middleman. Sophie has figured out how to make the German taxpayer fund her salary even though nothing in her “research” benefits German agriculture. And then she has her side-gig selling overpriced gourmet coffee so as to maximise her own profits.
No, it’s completely false that climate change will cause the extinction of coffee — as was said a few times. Total BS. If farmers are not well paid it’s because there’s a glut of over-production. If the high price of coffee in Europe is not reflected in the wholesale price it’s because of EU regulations that make importation more complicated and inefficient.
The climate of the earth has always changed no matter what or how much co2 is in the air Antarctica was once covered in forest and so was the artic so it will continue to change.
This documentary just predicted that by 2050 half of the world’s coffee belt production regions will be depleted, meaning in 2050 will have only 50% of today’s coffee production. This is an appalling yet laughable prediction, where do you guys get this numbers and analysis? DW please elaborate on this one, how half the equatorial regions will stop producing coffee? And by the way in a few decades Liberica will be on the same spot that Robusta coffee is now after over exploitation and mono-cultivation.
Now in my country Ivory Coast, it's already coffee season but it lacks, it's so difficult to find coffee and when you've found it, it's expensive. Before this season, a cup of coffee was 100Fcfa but now it's 150 and 200 fcfa
No more coffee, chocolate, wine, bananas and Avocados.
Thanks for the video. All the problems in the world are because human growth, reduce natural the population and no more problems….
climate change will just shift the coffee belt to different locations in 2050 the coffee belt will most likely be in the USA
Maybe give use you own energy in stead of driving and taking drugs to stay awake, and eat food thats alive and drink water its simple!
Lies.
From my perspective, it is a bad idea to work with suppliers from unfree countries, where the law is almost non-existent and corruption is widespread.
Honest people do not become 'head of a coffee farmers alliance' or business owners in such countries.
If you care about sustainability and fairness, work with democratic countries, where civil rights are respected.
This is all BS.
They must develop the coffee farms in the Philippines.
Im growing regenerative organic heirloom coffees in Venezuela. Starting with 20k plants in 1hctr microplots of dozens of pure arabica varieties from Sudan Rume, wushwush, geisha, yemeni, papayo, moka, java, monte claro, aji, chiroso, numerous bourbons, maragogype, laurina etc etc, plus a few high mountain canephoras and lyberica. I grow in complex regenerative polycultures with criolle & porcelain cacaos, and hundreds of fruit and nut species, turning steep pastures into food forrests. I Will add another 15k plants next year, reforresting another 15 hectares or so. It is suporting a whole village to keep them from forced economic emigration into the colombian drug trade. The problem here will likely be getting it out of the country to export. I might just have to sell it locally.
Ecuador
Thank you for the educative documentation of the work dedicated to harnessing agroecological practices. And the touch of music was really amazing, Imagine enjoying it while learning.
lol wazungu
Everything evolves but Coffee
when coffee died， we will change to another drink
Liberica has been cultivated in Malaysia for years
I'm form Vietnam, and as a coffee lovers, thanks for this video that helps me to understand the other sides of coffee. Sorry for my bad English, wish all of you will be great all time.
Don’t worry Americans will make sure we have supply
Summary of this video: some Germans travel across the globe by plane to check on their environmentally friendly coffee