Can scientists develop a coffee bean more resistant to climate change? | FT Food Revolution
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- One of world’s favourite drinks is under threat from global warming. The world’s top coffee producing nations all lie at similar tropical latitudes, where even small rises in temperature are forecast to have severe consequences for people and agriculture. But as the FT’s Nic Fildes reports, in Australia, scientists are tackling the problem by trying to develop a better, hardier coffee bean.
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in indonesia. we plant coffee inside the forest along with different variety of trees not mono culture. clearly more sustainable to climate change.
Wonderful👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿and not the lies and deception
God I hope so. The thought keeps me awake at night. Sorry for the cheek, I had a momentary weak spell and my comment was disrespectful. I've been reading messages from Ukraine.
Interesting vid…but it can’t help remind me of the scene in the movie Flying High when the air stewardess informs the passengers that there is no coffee & then the whole cabin erupts in a furore & then outright panic 😅
That tropic of cancer and Capricorn lines are quite misplaced.
The tropic of Capricorn for example cuts through São Paulo 800km North of its position in the graphic, where it's going through Porto Alegre
Science: we nees to take steps to curb climate change before it's too late.
World: lol no. You "experts" don't know what you're talking about.
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World: hey science, could you at least save our coffee please?
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If they start to mess with the coffee beans then good buy the good taste coffee
Stop all GMOs!
Don't worry guys in Somalia now we discover coffee plant that are growing in the jungle and it can survive 38 degrees and little rain with two seasons and it can defeat any hash drought good news to the wolrd
OMG.... Stay.Away.From my coffee!
We're all addicts
U got contexted
Please get rid of the music in the background
Well, there is already a bean resistant to climate change. It is the Robusta lol
It's a different species than arabica more bitter in taste. Well known to the coffee World already
And not to be touched there after, imperialists just mess everything
It's easy!
It's called ""tea"
The climate changes all the time. Plants adjust by nature. The problem is that the area these people are farming the coffee beans is no longer the best place and OTHER people and countries have the best place for them now. Maybe Colombia will no longer be the coffee capital, but somewhere else will be. These people are made that nature had ruined their golden goose.
edited to correct spelling of Colombia.
Its Colombia, not Columbia
@@123456789santia Sorry, the spell checker did not catch it.
Just so y'all know, we could've solved world hunger, but no. We're instead going to modify coffee, if that doesn't say a lot of who takes decisions in the world, I don't know what will
no... breeding coffee is less difficult than creating tens of thousands of properly maintained grain silos and thousands of refrigerated and freezer warehouses throughout the world. We actually make enough food to feed everyone, even in drought years, but 40% rots in developing countries before it can even get to market. Developed countries Like the USA do have health food deserts and food waste issues, but that is mostly due to public policy or wastful consumers. Building all of the storage and maintaining it would cost trillions of dollars, and i don't know how to convince people to be lest wasteful in the home. Changing fresh and frozen fruit and veggie regulations in the USA could lower the number of food deserts, but that is often lobbied against by the proccessed food industry.
That's not how it works though.
1. We as a species currently do produce more than enough food. For many reasons it's not available to everyone in enough quantities.
2. Just because money is being spent and can impact one area, does not meant it would be or could meaningfully impact another, especially if that other area already has much more funding. This coffee growing research is really picking some low hanging fruit (grown), whereas research into staple crops has already covered the easy stuff.
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📐 Coffee is something everyone is constantly striving to improve
And the prices are so low for luxury goods imports from far afield continents