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How Climate Change Threatens Coffee Production
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How Climate Change Threatens Coffee Production

28 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Climate change could cut the land suitable for growing coffee in half by 2050, and this DW film follows the farmers and researchers trying to head that off. In Uganda, where about 1.8 million smallholders depend on coffee for their livelihoods, grower Davis Kuloba is betting on Liberica, a wild, pest-resistant variety that could survive where Arabica and Robusta cannot, even though its taste is still winning over skeptics. In Ecuador's Amazon region, a cooperative grows coffee under the shade of native trees, an agroforestry approach that trades the efficiency of industrial plantations for resilience against drought and erratic rain. The film also visits German roasters who are starting to pay more for beans grown this way, showing how consumer demand at the far end of the supply chain feeds back into farming decisions on the ground. Interviews with farmers, cooperative members, and industry buyers trace a single question: whether resilient varieties, better shade management, and fairer prices can keep coffee viable as the climate that made it possible disappears.