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bus333 2017. 9. 28. 13:19

The bean belt :

As climate conditions become critical, millions of farmers’ live lihoods are put at risk




Climate change poses a serious threat to the world’s coffee “bean belt” and the 60-plus countries that produce the commodity. With 21.5m people involved in coffee farming, says the International Coffee Organization, 85 per cent of output is produced by smallholders.



“We know just how vulnerable farmers are to losing their crops as a result of climate change,” says Anna Pierides, coffee supply chain manager at the non-profit Fairtrade Foundation.



Compared with 10 years ago “people are really starting to see the impact,” says Aaron Davis, senior research leader at Kew’s royal botanic gardens in London. “It is the most serious concern for the coffee industry.” 



Arabica coffee — 60 per cent of global output— grows in tropical highlands and performs best at an average temperature of 18C-21C. Lower- grade robusta — largely for the instant-coffee market — grows in low-lying regions.



“Combined changes in temperature and precipitation are the main avenues through which climate change affects coffee production,” says Charles Agwanda, co-ordinator at the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International in Kenya.



Potentially hard times lie ahead. A 1.2C average temperature rise in Brazil, the world’s main producer, would threaten to cut 7 per cent of its 2.25m hectares of bean-growing land.



In 1899, Puerto Rico was the sixth largest world producer with about 770 sq km of coffee land. USDA Caribbean Climate Hub projections say this could fall to 24 sq km by this century’s end.



Productive area in Ethiopia, coffee’s original homeland, could fall by up to 60 per cent through the century. A 2C average rise in temperature would threaten much of Uganda’s coffee output.



In India, rainfall has decreased by a third in certain regions, where pests assisted by highertemperatures substantially lower yields.



Rising temperatures tend to force growers upslope. Where coffee was previously grown up to 2,200m in Ethiopia, says Mr Davis, the level has risen to 2,600m.







저는 아래 기사가 제일 맘에 들었습니다.

내가 먹는 바나나가 어떤 것인지도 몰랐네요.

그리고 바나나에 이런 스토리가 있는 줄도




Scientists fear the arabica bean may go the way of bananas



출처 : Financial Times 2017.09.25