Top Sustainability Facts: Coffee Industry under threat from Climate Change
Top Sustainability Facts Coffee
Coffee is a highly sensitive crop. It demands very specific growing conditions, and just the right balance of sunshine and rainfall, to yield well-balanced, flavorful beans. Coffee crops respond dramatically to the smallest weather variations. That’s why global warming is such a huge issue for the coffee industry. It threatens growing conditions in multiple regions and is a major concern for both coffee producers and consumers worldwide.
Top dangers for coffee production include:
droughts (overlong dry spells)
flooding (torrential rains)
pests and fungi/plant diseases (warmer temperatures create a favorable habitat for insects and microbes that attack the coffee plant and fruit...and Yes, coffee is technically a fruit! The beans we roast are the pits of this fruit. Coffee fruit looks a lot like cherries and is often referred to as ‘coffee cherries.’)
Increased droughts, floods, and pest and fungus proliferation are a huge current threat to the global industry, and livelihoods of millions of small-scale farmers in developing nations.
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