Climate change is coming for our coffee
Climate Signals summary: Human-caused climate change in the form of global warming is causing a decline in where some crops, such as coffee beans, can be effectively grown.
Article excerpt:
Bad news for coffee lovers: Climate change will make it much harder to grow Arabica coffee in the coming years, according to a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal Plos One.
The study examined how coffee-growing conditions will change by 2050 based on projections from several global climate models. Results show that coffee plants will be "drastically" less suitable for cultivation in current coffee-producing regions by 2050 because of the impacts of climate change.
"The main coffee producing countries investigated (Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, Colombia) are all seriously affected by climate change with a strong decline in suitable areas ... and an increase in unsuitable areas by 2050," according to the report, which noted that higher temperatures make it harder to grow coffee.
You can read the rest of this article here:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/business/coffee-climate-change/index.html
Related Content
