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Coffee farmers struggle to adjust to climate change
Posted by Seattle Times: Melissa Allison on January 28th, 2013
Seattle Times: One of the biggest problems facing coffee farmers in India and elsewhere is climate change. Fluctuations in the weather have always happened, but they come more frequently now and are often more extreme, farmers say.
Like many tropical crops, coffee needs predictable dry and wet seasons and cannot tolerate extreme temperature fluctuations.
"Climate change is hitting us hard,' said Jacob Mammen, managing director of India's Badra Estates. Three times in recent years, Badra has lost a third of...
Climate change takes toll on coffee growers, drinkers too
Posted by Seattle Times: Melissa Allison on March 6th, 2011
Seattle Times: A mile above this rural mountain town, coffee trees have produced some of the world's best arabica beans for more than a century.
Now farmers are planting even higher -- at nearly 7,000 feet -- thanks to warmer temperatures.
"We noticed about six years ago, the weather changed," said Ricardo Calderón Madrigal, whose family harvests ripe, red coffee cherries at the higher elevation. He sells beans to some of the most notable coffeehouses in the U.S., including Stumptown Coffee of Portland and...
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