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BAM_DEC 2013 -JAN 2014

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RAINFALL FLOWERING RIPENING Climate change causes unpredictable rainfall. This disrupts the cycle of coffee flowering. Normally flowering happens in late spring/summer, which makes way for coffee cherry to develop in the fall. If this schedule is compromised, coffee won't have time to ripen before winter weather. Farmland at lower temperatures dies & goes idle, wasted. If the temperature increases, coffee farms have to go higher and higher up the mountainsides. This results in smaller farms because there is only so high you can go. CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSES INCREASE IN TEMPERATURES. QUALITY COFFEE IS GROWN AT HIGH ALTITUDES. PESTICIDES CORN Increase in temperatures gives pests and diseases a chance to thrive. This means coffee farmers use more pesticides. 64 CLONING Heirloom varieties (i.e. the original coffee plants from Ethiopia) struggle in the increased temperatures and die out. This means coffee scientists have to develop clones very quickly. Coffee is being replaced by corn in some areas to produce biofuel as global demand for clean fuel increases. barista magazine

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