Coffee is Xavier Baluku’s favourite cash crop. And it is not just Baluku’s favourite crop but Uganda’s primary foreign exchange earner. Most of the coffee grown in Uganda’s mountainous Rwenzoris is drunk in Europe and North America. The people on this mountain have special connection to coffee as it is their main source of household […]
Colombia is betting on genetic research to adapt coffee crops to climate change, as farmers come to terms with the harsh rainy season that has threatened production. The Andean nation, the world’s top producer of high-quality Arabica beans, is increasingly relying on science to recover coffee output, after three years of lower-than-expected production. Jose Ramon […]
Indonesia, now struggling with slumping coffee output due to hot and wet weather, has set an ambitious goal to be the world’s No.2 producer within five years, an executive at an industry association said on Wednesday. Indonesia is the world’s fourth-largest coffee producer after Brazil, Colombia and Vietnam, and the world’s second-biggest robusta coffee producer […]
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Global coffee production in the season started last month will fall from a previous estimate as rainfall hurt crops in Asia and Latin America, according to the International Coffee Organization. World coffee production will be 127.4 million bags in the 2011-12 season started last month, down from a previous forecast of […]
THIOTTE, Haiti – Connoisseur Osier Jean steps into the sterile room, pauses and clears his mind. With notebook and flavor wheel in hand, he quickly turns to the task at hand – checking the quality. He sniffs, slurps and swirls, allowing his senses to take in the richness. The liquid is not wine, but caffeine […]
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s coffee output is seen rising 6 percent in the 2011/12 (Oct-Sept) crop year to 54,000 tonnes as farmers make additional investment in existing farms and expand to new areas to take advantage of favourable prices, the industry regulator said on Monday. Loise Njeru, managing director of the state-run Coffee Board of […]
Over the next three to four decades, temperatures in the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa are expected to rise about two degrees Celsius. Scientists say without immediate innovations in farming, crops will be devastated and the region will be thrown into chaos. So Rwanda is experimenting with what is already widely practiced in some […]
Imagine: One Monday morning in America…you pull into your favorite, drive-through espresso stand, only to find a “closed due to lack of beans” sign…Or you pop into you local coffee drink retailer, and find that the price of a 12 ounce latte has tripled to over 7 bucks, plus tax… It’s fair to guess that […]
Too early for clear estimate of damage * Blocked roads could complicate harvesting * Excess moisture could spread fungus By Alex Leff SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Central America coffee growers are counting their losses after two weeks of rainstorms have felled coffee trees, ruined roads and threatened to spread fungus on […]
Coffee and Climate: What’s Brewing with Climate Change? Climate change is threatening coffee crops in virtually every major coffee producing region of the world. Higher temperatures, long droughts punctuated by intense rainfall, more resilient pests and plant diseases—all of which are associated with climate change—have reduced coffee supplies dramatically in recent years. Dramatic declines Because […]