BEAN BATTLE: CLIMATE CHANGE POSES LONG-TERM CHALLENGE TO COFFEE PRODUCTION

摘要

The coffee plant's sensitivity to climatic variables means that global climate change is likely to have profound impacts on coffee growing and production in the years to come. While some mossback on Capitol Hill and at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun last autumn did not yet get the message and are still disputing that climate change yet exists, coffee farmers in countries such as Columbia and Costa Rica can tell a different story. Bean yields are down, and the price of coffee has shot up significantly over the past year or so due to a lack of supplies.