Impact of Climate Change on Coffee

Coffee Heritage Project's farm program promotes the planting of new trees that sustain not just the environment but people’s lives as well.

Author
Rich Watanabe
Date
September 19, 2014
Categories
Climate
Coffee
Planting

Like most people anguishing under the effects of climate change and rising temperatures, coffee trees and coffee farmers are struggling with extreme changes in climate. The effects are especially more felt with arabica coffee trees where the window of climate conditions is relatively narrow.

Arabica coffee trees are also vulnerable to a lethal fungus called “coffee leaf rust” (also called “roya” in Spanish). Today in Latin America, coffee leaf rust has spread far and fast, driven by warmer temperatures in the region that have allowed the fungus to thrive at higher altitudes.

"Roya" is unsparing on coffee trees, reducing them quickly to lattices of gray twigs. The impact of coffee leaf rust epidemic on affected local communities’ economy is even worse. The rust outbreak has pushed many families in Latin America to the edge of survival.

Indeed, coffee leaf rust is a very serious problem. Five years ago, an outbreak decimated coffee in the region, the Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador governments were prompted to declare states of emergency following an epidemic of coffee leaf rust in Central America. Famine watches were also established.

Several countries have already undertaken intensive research to abate coffee leaf rust and the impacts of climate change to coffee farm production.

Coffee Heritage Project supports sustainable reforestation as an effective approach in mitigating climate change and the spread of coffee leaf rust. Coffee Heritage Project's farm program promotes the planting of new trees that sustain not just the environment but people’s lives as well.

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