Coffee: The future of coffee growing and production | DW Documentary
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2022
- Coffee production is no longer what it was thanks to innovative growers and brave farmers. Coffee can now be grown using methods that promote biodiversity in fields, plantations and forests, while also ensuring that farmers earn more.
David Benitez is one of these coffee pioneers. The young agroecologist from Honduras studied the holistic cultivation techniques used by his indigenous ancestors, and found ways to combine these with modern permaculture methods. David now trains other coffee producers. Teaching farmers has huge potential, as 80% of coffee worldwide is still grown by small farmers. By changing the coffee growing methods they use, these small farmers could actually help fight climate change, while increasing their income.
The start-up "The Coffee Cherry Company” is also helping coffee producers be able to live more comfortably off the fruits of their labor - literally. To make coffee beans only the seeds of coffee cherries are roasted. The pulp of the fruit usually gets discarded. But this company buys this byproduct, and turns it into coffee flour. This healthy and tasty ingredient can be used in cakes, bread and pasta, and has already been dubbed "the new superfood” in the US. It’s a win-win-model, which provides coffee farmers with another source of income, while also protecting the environment and benefitting consumers.
Another long-forgotten plant that has been re-discovered are lupines. The flowering plant is native to Germany and is already being used as a base ingredient for tofu and yoghurt alternatives. But this brightly blooming legume has even more to offer, as its beans can also be roasted and brewed. Family Klein has developed their very own stomach-friendly coffee creation, called Lupino. The family has been growing lupines on their organic farm for years, and delivers the lupine coffee to customers across Europe. Thanks to short transport routes and production that consumes less water, Lupino is a climate-friendly alternative to coffee.
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The documentary is biased towards only one part of the world that produces coffee. In Uganda - the biggest coffee exporter in Africa, coffee is primarily produced organically and we use the coffee husks as a key fertilizer in plantations and also as a basal material for deep-liter poultry farming. Also, the massive water requirements are usually associated with wet processing to remove the husks. But in Uganda, our coffee is dried in the sun directly due to the all year available sun.
We don’t agree with the current practice where Germany - a country with no single coffee plant, benefits more than 150 Billion dollars annually from coffee and the rest of all coffee growing countries share a miserable 40B dollars. We desire to move away from shipping raw coffee beans to Germany and other coffee consuming societies in the global north. Our desire is to begin exporting final coffee products such as instant soluble coffee, coffee snacks, roasted coffee beans etc. That way we will be able to retain majority of the coffee value in communities which actually do the hard work to produce this coffee.
The global coffee trade is biased against the coffee producers. We need to empower the producing communities to be able to realize real value from their sweat.
Thank you for taking the time to type out your response. I really enjoyed learning what you had to say. I believe you have every right to profit off your own labor.
Voice from the South..
This documentary brought to my memory a great coffee that I had in Colombia, Café Mesa de los Santos in Santander, great coffee, and great human beings there, Todá/Thanks DW for reminding me.
Such a respectable man, all the best for you and your community, David.
Honduras have one of the bests coffee ☕️ in the world..🇭🇳🇭🇳 La Paz and Intibucá have the best coffee of the country..thank you so much for sharing this to the World..🇭🇳🙏🏽
I always watched DW documentaries 'cause they are very educational and interesting, I never thought I would be part of one, a great job by Sarah and her team and a great experience having received them at the plant to learn about the beautiful world of coffee
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Saludos David! It's always great to see people like you working towards a higher good and inspiring others along the way. Also great documentary from DW!
It’s all about brainwashing & constantly emphasizing “climate” where they have a blind eye who overly over consumes. Who destroys the climate DW?? Is it the jet fuels or cow farts?? Can you make a documentary on elites who has 1000 shoes & upscale clothing & waste ton of food? Why don’t you focus on the real polluters who own those big companies which don’t care about pollution? How about side effects of solar farms to climate??
Hi David, thanks for sharing. Am planning to plant robusta coffee, i need advice on the planting and spacing. How can i cantact you?
The film is very exciting. Tks DW!
As always, I learn so much about the world from the work you guys do. Thanks so much for this video. :3
If the cherries taste fruity and there is so much of it going to waste, ferment it, create a new brew
stay safe David, God Bless
Another great documentary from DW. This really shows how documentaries can be used to push the world a little in the right direction and make the planet a better place, for the people who inhabit it. Hope that the good farmers we see here, will thrive even more after this documentary is seen by thousands of people around the world.
Right (!) the direction that benefits them
At the café I used to work at we served cascara tea
It's pretty good, and lighter on the caffeine content
I probably move to Hunduras and check out with business with coffee. I love those people,they are hard worker.
We are two now
So soothing, felt inner calmness, thanks
We need everyone to see this
Amazing! What a well put together story of sustainable coffee farming : )
So David's coffee from Honduras is handpicked on a farm with no electricity. It then gets shipped to Europe, resulting in some carbon emissions. The Klein's "coffee" is a substitute bean produced on a farm with big machinery. I'll just have a cup of coffee from Honduras, thanks.
Besides, it is grown in an open area with no trees at all 🤣
Amen!
Very informative and heartwarming documentary. I had no idea of the environmental impact of coffee production.
After growing using pure chems I've started experimenting with wood waste. Or rather growing trees for for fertalizer.
Generally speaking a coffee plantation will dry out minerals in the soils even with application of processed fertalizers, which leads falling production, which then leads to amping up fertalizer use to compensate for falling production.
In terms price that's controlled by the CBOT which is corrupted by large buyers. However it is possable now to buy direct using the Colombian Federation de Coffetales in colombia from indiviual farmers via escrow accounts. Paid upon delivery, no risk to buyers or sellers. Obviously buyers are free to sample and negotiate.
These can be bought in micro lots 100 kilos or around that.
Consolidated container shipments to Europe.
It's interesring.
I’m from india and here coffee is only grown as a shade crop under big trees like coconut, rubber and Areca nut.
It is gross how big coffee companies always need to maximize profits, often at the expense of the growers
Then they call it fair trade and act like they're being virtuous
En Colombia había en los 70, 80, 90 una variedad de café en Colombia, llamada arábiga, de muy buena calidad. Esta crecía bajo la sombra y simultaneamente con árboles que producían comida (plátano, guama, balu y otros más). Con el aumento de sistema de monocultivos, intervención genética sobre las variedades y por orden de Federación Nacional de Cafeteros, los pequeños y grandes caficultores fueron migrando a variedades que necesitan abonos químicos plaguicidas y que los hacen dependientes de la industria agroquimica y alimentan las ya poderosas empresas farmacéuticas Adicionalmente la federacion, cuando fue la bonanza cafetera no planeo el gasto de sus abundantes ingresos, ni invirtió en el desarrollo del mercado internacional, cuando el café colombiano era catalogado como uno de los mejores del mundo.
Esto es parte de la larga y tortuosa historia del cultivo del café en Colombia.
Aun existe café variedad arábiga en mas del 50% de las áreas cafeteras en Colombia 🇨🇴...
Thank you for the information. Same thing has been done for sugar & other produce in Turkey in the same time period
Thnaks!!! Good content
Thank you for watching!
Beautiful vid soo many lessons
It’s a unique thing to just have us pour one cup of coffee..
Now everytime I drink a cup I will be thinking about the work it took to get there
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In coming years east African especially ethiopian coffee will attract more consumers in worldwide market. It's organic and delicious
I agree, it's delicious. I also choose Ethiopian coffee because Ethiopia is closer to France where I live, much less transport than shipping it from Central America.
It is also where coffee is originally from. I am not trying to sound snobby but part of agriculture is also understanding indigenous species as well as introduced species.
@@Alaskan-Armadillo ok, good to know. I used to think it was Yemen. The port city of Moka, in Yemen was the first to export coffee to other regions of the world.
Fantastic documentary coverage video about coffee ☕️ its plantations, production in their main ,ordinary areas & in Germany 🇩🇪 in the future...DW always sharing excellent subjects... video labeled to problems that facing farmers in South America contents...allot thanks
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
It was a such amazing video. Thaks for this story.
Thanks for watching:)
A very nice documentary. I would be happy to get the seeds of Lupine from Germany to try them in Cameroon.
Always May Favorite food For Coffee
I've been growing citrus and coffee almost 6 years you have to climb a huge learning curve but it pays off. I am in Canada zone 8b
Hopefully they can sell directly online or find companies that will pay them fairly.
Amen by Mona noorchalida
Industrial hemp is the answer to depleted soil, grow a field of hemp, then grow anything else the next year and see the difference, carbon sequestration of the hemp roots help soil quality
It may help the soil but certainly will destroy the families! Hemp business comes from the darkness!
So informative and educational, I am an avid filter coffee drinker, I was completely unaware of 'the cherry', so many thanks, keep up the good work. Paul, Johannesburg
Thanks for watching, Paul!
I'm glad I get my coffee outside my kitchen...farm to cup
It only take one person to go learn then have a vision to rebuild their culture.
Cherry flour tortillas, with spicy tune and mango/pineapple sounds so good
In German supermarkets customers pay half the price for Brazilian industrial beans, thats the mane issue
I know in February 2023 I purchased bag of coffee $9.58 and now it is $10.28 same bag same company
Brazilian here and I hope you change your mind and stop to spread this misconception! You have good Brazilian coffee available for a fair price and people were working hard over there to give you this privilege. As a Bimmer, I never complained about German cars or blamed the country by the oil leaking that never ends.
Thank you DW.
@4:20 I'm assuming that coffee grown under the sun requires more water due to evaporation. I'm not sure how deep the plant's root system is, but why not build a pipe in the soil with an opening above ground (that you can then close) for irrigation. That way, and moisture losses contribute either to ground water or they don't get lost due to a low porosity of the rock beneath the ground?
The other thing is that the caffeine molecule has 4 N atoms in it. The molar weight is roughly 200g/mol, and the amount of caffeine in the average cup of coffee is about 95 mg = 0.095 g. Thus there are roughy 0.000475 moles of caffeine in a cup of coffee, or 0.0019 moles of N. This is a huge amount, therefore suggesting that fertilizer becomes very important. Maybe coffee farming and livestock growing need to go hand in hand, or aquaculture + coffee growth (which would require a higher startup cost).
As a specialty coffee roaster in Sydney you had me laughing out loud within 15 seconds
May I ask why?
@@simple80ishBecause very few coffee roasters become rich or wealthy. Even if you're talking about businesses that roast it's rare. And if they're talking about individual people that roast coffee for a living then that's plain wrong. Obviously that's repective to the median wage in a given location. Growers get the short end of the stick. No arguments there.
This documentary makes great points about problems and coffee production however the solution of growing lupine does not seem viable because lupine does not contain caffeine nor betacarbolines and so is unlikely to replace the true reason for coffee consumption in most people
6:15 and as usual some editors in Germany can't overcome ignorance that Georgia is also part of Europe. On the map they included all Asia Minor peninsula and beyond it, Cyprus, Siberia but excluded Georgia and the South Caucasus - "well done Herren und Frauen".
Otherwise thanks for interesting documentary.
I ❤️ Coffee
DW is back to their old tricks. Read between the lines and don't let the mischievous ones fool you.
Oh really? Could you please tell more? The only thing I didn’t get about the video is why to even talk about replacing coffee for another crop.
"If we produce what we consume and eat what we produce - that's the best wealth there is."
Florida has wild coffee plants that are cousins to the arabica.
Shiba Coffee and Tea Co. taught me all about coffee and they use some great beans from sustainable sources
Since 19th century, Indian Coffee farmers are growing under wild tree shades. I too own a shade grown Coffee plantations.
I had no idea so much could be done with lupines! Very interesting. The new methods for cultivating coffee is very interesting as well. Great documentary!
They dont have caffeine the main reason why people drink coffee
@@BongLogic757 Right. The couple in Germany mentioned how much the lupine seeds were used prior to tofu I think? I'd have to go back and watch the doc again. I believe they found there are other great uses like as a flour? I live in Texas and people are only aware of the bluebonnet variety of lupines we have here as our state flower.
@@BongLogic757 People drink coffee for caffeine, and the taste. Tea would also give them caffeine, but the taste is not as popular in many places. Caffeine pills do exist, but aren't as popular as coffee. They do have the advantage of being more standardized in terms of the amount.
@@BongLogic757 I miss the taste of coffee since I quit when I realized that my system doesn't handle caffeine well. Even decaf coffee has too much caffeine for me. I use Pero, which is made from roasted chickory root, barley, and rye. Nice to know its better for the environment. I would try lupine coffee if I saw it in the store.
@@someguy2135
India is the only country that grows all of its coffee under shade. Typically mild
Consumer Council in Hong kong tested 48 International coffee brands this year and only two didn't have pesticide residue.
This all sounds wonderful - but to make this work operations have to be more efficient.
The best hand up is to fund efficiency so the profits can fund the next group of farmers.
How do we buy the Catratcha coffee in the US. ?
Not sure about the coffee cherry flour, but could be used for hot chocolate a fruity spice in combination with cocoa vanilla and sweetener of choice can make a nutritional hot chocolate
If anyone will have the morality like that of Mr. Lowell Powell and his wife, there will be no poor people in the world. By the way, for the sustainable coffee farming to happen there must be direct relationship between coffee buyers and producers. In Tanzania mainly in Kagera and Mbeya, coffee are produced under shades of bananas, gliveria and "mihumula" trees. They fertilize soil by using grasses and cow dungs. There must be direct relationship with farmers co-operatives. In Bukoba coffee pulps are dried by sun, taken back to be spread in the banana farms to cover soil against weeds, they become manure.
Chewing the uncooked coffee cherries😷😷! We, the Haya tribe in Kagera region of Tanzania, we chew the cooked unripe coffee.
watching this while drinking my second cup, lets gooooo
Super 👌👌👌
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In south America, how is that cultivation any different from what the Inca and the Mayans did with their terracing and cultivation? It looks very similar to their ancestors ways, minus the clear cutting of course. But the method, it looks the same
6:40 How does lupine compare to chicory?
15:10 Increased income and efficiency via direct sale and waste reprocessing.
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Funny how they made a short documentary without mentioning the biggest exporter and producer in the world..
The documentary is about a alternative solution to the current problem. So it is not about the current problematic situation, but about a possible solution to the problems.
@@fritsrits7591 you can just say it's a specific documentary that doesn't represent the whole industry but a small small portion of farmers and their isolate struggles
Brazil?
Do you have that updated information?
Maybe you should posted here.
Enlighten us on that subject, please.
@@TheStockwell I am Brazilian, my family own a farm in the interior of Minas Gerais in the serrado biome, where we produce coffee since 2 generations responsibly and respecting the federal preservation laws
indonesian farmer here, ask me about coffe bean im gonna give u the cheapest with premium quality
So the american supposedly helps the coffe growers , pays them 2.30 a pound , but single origin shade grown organic coffee can easily sell for 20 dollars a pound in the US
I didn't realize Germany and I had so much in common ☕
In the matter of fact, Farmers are mostly underrated & do not get what they invest! Bitter-truth! Yet climate change is conspicuous ever
can it be grown in green house
Treat farmers well, and in turn they will grow healthy food for us to eat, whichi is good for the earth. And It's a win--win--win situation.
I too own a small coffee farm here in india, Karnataka. And we only grow shade grown coffee, there is no concept of conventional coffee farming here...
Alwa navu beliyide bere tara ivraddu berene ritine ide.
Where can I buy this coffee?
Everybody drink coffee not because of the taste, but because it's "very light drug" and stimulate. If you want to proceed from coffee to something else, find some plant with similar effect.. and legal 😁
Lol. Stop to smoke bro!
It is not true that coffee grown in full sun has higher yields than shaded grown coffee. There are mixed results that support both system as the most productive.
He may be referring to the quality of the bean and taste.
Talk about Indian coffee.coorg coffee.we grow coffee under trees too.
it is very shade tolerant so it could easily be grown indoors or under native or fruit bearing or nitrogen fixing trees. Cacao as well.
and Vanilla
Lupin dont have caffeine the main reason why people drink coffee
lupine interesting....but I need caffeine lol
Wait a couple of years and you could start growing coffee on the alps
B.S.
alps is good, you get enough sun, but you need to replace the soil ! The granite is collecting the energy
They can start planting the trees to have shaded alpine organic rust free coffee
In my birth country ethipia the coffe farmers earn less than 50 cent € for one killo coffe. But star backs after taking this coffe beans get huge benefits.
Most of ethiopian coffe farmers die due to starvation
Never knew germany grew their own coffee plants
They can’t forecast the weather for two days how do they know if things are getting bad or not.
Look how wealthy a person is, with a little land of their own. That’s always been an unnecessary problem
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I drink instant partially so I don't have to deal with all the grounds
Very good by mona noorchaalida
In Hondujistan, those Turks and Palestinians prefer to plant Afrikan palm for export, they even cut down half of the mosquitia forest just to produce palm oil or make biofuel or electricity to sell at high prices to the government and the worst thing is that the palm oil It's not cheap in Hondujistan at a point where some local shops sell used palm oil they also get tax exoneration and they believe that they live in switzerland to laundry money like maniacs with their banks and drug money even i want to go to harvest coke in the mountain then work 12 hours a day in a slave factory in choloma.
Europe should pick coffee directly from farmers , OR instal coffee processing near farm lands inspite of buying coffee from Big traders through auction .
This will make coffee less cost and affordable to every one in world .
Actually pure coffee without added other ingredients can be as low cost as 0.1 Euros a cup.
What I want to know more about is how Lowell Powell had a metamorphosis and why he no longer is a persecutor for U.S. immigration. As a consumer I don't care if he is more ethical now I just want to know if it is genuine and for real since to many times do Americans come down to Latin America and talk about their change of heart when they're just like every other settler as they drive up prices and do little to support the economy.
***Warning***
*You must drink coffee while watching this episode*
Algo
I grow coffee in Hawaii. It is very labor intensive. We only have a small farm, say 600 trees. Fixed cost is about $15 per pound not counting labor. A break even cost is about $20 per pound. Not worth the headache growing it. But having good fertile ground to start with where one does not need the high price if fertilizers would help a lot.
This documentary is missing important information about the processing of coffee. Washing coffee is one method, you have a partial wash, and then you have unwashed. Unwashed has the fruit dried on the bean.
they dry them in the sun, that was not washed off, less than 60 celcius sunburn
Coffee is exclusively a tropical crop, the most traded commodity in the world next to oil, as you have stated, and a necessity in the extreme cold and frigid countries of the world where it is consumed the most I may add. But it is not the growing countries that reap the most profits from exporting the raw coffee beans they produce in abundance. Rather, it is the companies that add value to the commodity that do. It has been estimated that a 60kg (120lb) bag of raw coffee beans they export when roasted and marketed to the consumer, fetches 4 times more in profit for the manufacturer than for the raw coffee bean farmer. It is quite obvious that in order for the top coffee growing countries like mine to get the full benefit from the coffee business, we must become the growers, manufacturers and marketers of the commodity themselves. It would involve dealing with the consumers directly by giving them what they want at an unbeatable price, thus competing directly with the manufacturers. Innovation can be costly, but the results could be astonishing.
Don't mess with my coffee
never try the German Coffee then!
just import it yourself, crack them your way!
DW normally has very well done documentaries, but some time it seems the Documentary is done to some people or by some people who can do or pay for them…
I definitely agree. It's what they always do. Support the ones that are convenient.
I Grow coffee and I an not clear who made coffee so costly , I my place a kg of fried bean shall be 2 Euros .
Also don't forget about deforestation for soy bean, corn etc.
Indigenous, Aboriginal & Native all mean the same thing
As someone who comes from a coffee growing country... the pay that farmers get is not commensurate to the work they put in for the west to enjoy coffee..
I am not buying the documentary message , coffee production is at all time high and the price is the same as 20 years ago .. there is no problem in current coffee production , every one is happy .
I going to give up drinking coffee and replace it with tea.
hard to say that. because they will still need you to consume their coffee. By mona noorchaalida
Yea but how about coffee friendly climates.
Coffee price will collapse below $1 in 2024
21.000L of water to produce 1kg of coffee??? Just one of the missinformation of this "documentary"
it's more climate freindly to drink robusta coffee