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Climate change: What’s brewing for coffee?
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Coffee farmer Zhong Dong Dan proudly presents his three month old grand-daughter. Twenty years ago his family started growing coffee here in Pu’er, a...
Climate change could cut world’s coffee supply in half
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As temperatures rise and weather patterns become more erratic around the world, coffee production is beginning to decline. By the mid-21st century, coffee production could...
Coffee quality and cost to be impacted by climate change
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Climate change is already putting production and cost pressures on the supply of coffee in significant parts of the world’s ‘bean belt’ of coffee...
Push towards a brighter future for coffee production
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In the southwestern region of Colombia, called Nariño, the impact of climate change is becoming more visible. Trees are dying, coffee plants are contaminated...
Lindt & Sprüngli joins Wcf program to address climate change
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KILCHBERG, Switzerland – Lindt & Sprüngli supports the new program by the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) to address the threat climate change poses to...
Leading Cocoa and chocolate companies join together to address climate change threat
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STATE COLLEGE, Penn., U.S. – The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) announced on Tuesday the launch of its new program designed to strengthen collaboration between...
How Ethiopia’s Arabica coffee is helping fight climate change
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I’ve long been in thrall to Arabica coffee. The fruity, light and slightly acidic taste with just a small note of chocolate. To me,...
Starbucks issues the first U.S. Corporate Sustainability Bond
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SEATTLE, U.S. - Starbucks Corporation yesterday announced that it has closed an underwritten public offering of senior notes, including the first U.S. Corporate Sustainability...
Climate change ups the urgency on saving the world’s seeds
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During the 872-day German siege of Leningrad in World War II, in which an estimated 1.1 million civilians died, a small band of workers...
This is how coffee farmers in the highlands of Guatemala are adapting to climate change
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Climate change is predicted to have adverse effects on Central America’s coffee producers. Hurricanes and coffee leaf rust, a fungal pathogen which has caused...