Coffee and Climate Have a Complicated Relationship

 
A cupping session at Los Papales, a coffee farm in Jinotega, Nicaragua.

“Wilston Vilchez, a third-generation coffee farmer in the mountains of Nicaragua, has witnessed drastic climatic changes on his 25-acre coffee and cacao farm for years, but when two hurricanes hit within 15 days last year, many other farmers he knows realized they needed to be part of the solution. ... Mr. Vilchez, who also manages an agricultural cooperative of about 300 farmers, said that the effects of climate change — rising temperatures, less predictable rainfall, wild swings from drought to flooding, new pests and more — were making it more and more difficult to earn a living from coffee, an experience felt by farmers around the world. ...”

 
Sacks of coffee in the Zona de los Santos area of Costa Rica.

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