Growers will abandon a crop long before yields crash because of climate.

[andrewhenry@mastodon.energy]

Growers will abandon a crop long before yields crash because of climate. The decision will be financial.

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You can see the next generations not be interested in coffee farming because of these problems.

“Because if you start going year by year by year and losing and losing and losing, there's going to be a time where we're not going to have coffee producers anymore,"

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#agriculture
#climatecrisis
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/coffee-climate-change-heat-rain-9.7094800

[david_megginson@mstdn.ca]

@AndrewHenry Yes, perhaps big disruptions coming up in the global coffee market, like a shift to Liberica beans, which are more heat-tolerant (but have even less caffeine than Arabica), and a rise in new coffee growing regions like China and Nepal.

Little of that will help existing growers, though.

#coffee #climateChange