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If your coffee’s going downhill, blame climate change
by Reuters
Monday, 16 August 2021 10:00 GMT
Brazil is turning to stronger and more bitter robusta coffee beans, which are hardier in the heat than the delicate arabica, in a sign of how climate change is affecting global markets
* Robusta coffee more heat tolerant than arabica
* It can be grown at lower altitudes than rival variety
* Top roasters ramping up use of Brazilian robusta
* Yields in Brazil now match top robusta grower Vietnam
By Maytaal Angel, Marcelo Teixeira and Roberto Samora
LONDON/NEW YORK/SAO PAULO, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Coffee leader Brazil is turning to stronger and more bitter robusta beans, which are hardier in the heat than the delicate arabica, in a sign of how climate change is affecting global markets – and shaping our favourite flavours.
Brazil is the world’s biggest producer of arabica, yet its production has stayed largely flat over the last five years. Meanwhile its output of cheaper robusta – generally grown at lower altitudes and viewed as of inferior quality – has leapt and is attracting more and more international buyers, new data shows.
The expansion is challenging Vietnam’s longstanding robusta dominance, while squeezing smaller players, increasingly leaving output concentrated in fewer regions and more vulnerable to price spikes if extreme weather occurs.
It also promises to gradually alter the flavour of the world’s coffee over the coming years as more of the harsher and more caffeine-charged robusta variety, widely used to make instant coffee, makes its way into the pricier ground blends currently dominated by arabica.
Whatever your taste, Enrique Alves, a scientist specialising in coffee seed cultivation at Brazilian state agritech research centre Embrapa, said that it might ultimately be thanks to robusta that “our daily coffee will never be missing” as the globe warms.
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Drinking coffee in the US? Worry about forests in Vietnam, study warns
The US’s thirst for coffee drives forest loss in central Vietnam, while Germany’s craving for cocoa is doing the same in West Africa, a landmark study that tracks the drivers of deforestation across borders found.
Mongabay.comApril 5, 2021
- Consumption patterns, especially in wealthier countries, are eating away at forests in some of the world’s most biodiverse regions. In the US, the thirst for coffee drives forest loss in central Vietnam, a landmark study that tracks the drivers of deforestation across borders found.
Germany’s demand for cocoa is linked to forest loss in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, while Japan’s demand for agricultural products like cotton fuels deforestation in coastal Tanzania.
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Building a Climate Resilient Future for Costa Rica’s Coffee Farming Communities
Innovative methods could transform Vietnam’s robusta farms into carbon sinks
- Vietnam is the second-largest producer of coffee in the world, and the largest exporter of robusta beans.
- Climate change poses a threat to the country’s coffee sector, while poor farming techniques cause environmental degradation.
- A new report has found that intercropping (agroforestry) and decreased fertilizer use can change robusta farms from carbon sources to carbon sinks.
- Such practices are present in Vietnam’s small specialty coffee industry, but large-scale commodity producers aren’t as innovative.
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How the coffee industry is about to get roasted by climate change
Fall is always a good time to create new habits, and coffee chains know it.
These days, they are desperately trying to find any excuse to get you to drink their java.
Many chains used National or International Coffee Day, just passed, as a reason to offer their coffee at a discount, or even for free — with some conditions, of course.
For restaurant operators, there’s no better hook than coffee to get repeat business. It’s a great scheme that seems to be working for some. Given what’s looming on the horizon, however, offering free coffee may no longer be an option for businesses.
Coffee demand around the world is shifting. Europe still accounts for almost one third of the coffee consumed worldwide, but China has doubled its consumption in just the last five years. Tiếp tục đọc “How the coffee industry is about to get roasted by climate change”
Arabica coffee genome sequenced
Date:January 13, 2017
Source:University of California – Davis
sciencedaily_Summary:The sequencing of the genome of Coffea arabica, the species responsible for more than 70 percent of global coffee production, has now been announced by researchers.
The first public genome sequence for Coffea arabica, the species responsible for more than 70 percent of global coffee production, was released today by researchers at the University of California, Davis.
Funding for the sequencing was provided by Suntory group, an international food and beverage company based in Tokyo.
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VN coffee output likely to slow
Updated September, 12 2015 09:48:26
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| Workers at Thang Loi Coffee Company in Dak Lak Province dry coffee beans for export. Viet Nam may see a reduction in coffee output next year due to bad weather. — VNA/VNS Photo Quang Huy |
HA NOI (VNS)— Viet Nam, the world’s second largest coffee exporter, will likely see output drop by 20 percent next year as bad weather and old trees undermine production, growers said.
Coffee farmers expect to produce about 1.3 million tonnes of beans during the year starting in October, down from 1.6 million tonnes grown during the last 12 months, the Viet Nam Coffee and Cocoa Association (Vicofa) said.
A long-lasting severe drought in the Central Highland provinces of Dak Lak, Lam Dong, Dak Nong and Gia Lai, where most Vietnamese coffee is grown, has hurt production. In Dak Lak alone, nearly 48,000 ha of coffee plants suffered from water shortages, resulting in a decrease of 15 per cent to 20 per cent in the output compared to those of the previous harvest.
Another reason for the drop in coffee production has been low efficiency due to ageing coffee trees and a slow progress in replanting coffee trees.
Vicofa estimates that more than 120,000 ha of ageing coffee trees in the Central Highlands provinces need to be replanted by 2020. However, farmers and businesses in the region have not been able to replant coffee trees on a large area due to a lack of capital.
Some farmers are holding around 200,000 tonnes of bean harvested from the current crop year to wait for better prices, Vicofa said.
In the first eight months of the year, coffee shipments reached 874,000 tonnes for an export value of $1.8 billion, down 33 per cent in both volume and value against the same period last year, the country’s General Statistics Office said.
Germany and the United States continued to be the two largest export markets for Vietnamese coffee, receiving 14.9 per cent and 11.3 per cent, respectively.
Viet Nam is currently home to 671,000 ha of coffee trees, making it one of the country’s major crop earners. Last year, Viet Nam earn $3.6 billion from coffee exports.
Coffee output has also dropped in Brazil, the top coffee producing country in the world and Columbia, the third largest coffee producer, sparking a shortage of around 300,000 tonnes worldwide. — VNS
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