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.
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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.
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