How climate change threatens coffee production | DW Documentary
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
- Climate change could halve the amount of land suitable for coffee production by 2050. In a bid to save one of the world’s most popular drinks, many people are busy experimenting with more resilient coffee varieties and sustainable growing methods.
In Uganda, about 1.8 million smallholders make their living growing coffee. Coffee beans are one of the East African country’s most important exports. But droughts, torrential rain, and pest damage are increasing problems. The most common types of coffee, Arabica and Robusta, are at risk because they need stable temperatures. That’s why Davis Kuloba and other farmers are now pinning their hopes on a wild type of coffee, Liberica, which appears to be more climate-resilient and resistant to pests. However, not everyone is convinced by its taste. There’s still more work to be done to improve how its cultivated and processed.
In the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, a cooperative is growing coffee under the shade of other trees. This model runs counter to conventional, industrial-scale coffee plantations. It’s hoped that this strategy, known as agroforestry, will help future-proof coffee production. More and more coffee roasting companies in Germany are showing an interest in alternative forms of cultivation. The industry is changing, thanks to the rise of resilient bean varieties, sustainable cultivation, and fairer trade conditions. Coffee - fit for the future.
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I grow my own Coffee Arabica here in Zimbabwe - its all naturally grown without any fertilizer, only compost & manure. I get around 2kg of roasted coffee beans per plant per year & I have about 20 trees. More than enough for my neighbors & I!
The whole idea of the video is coffee can’t be grown that easily. You’re killing the vibe with positivity and facts.
@@alphared4655 It’s like boasting about having a generator that can power your own home, but no one else. That amount would need to be replicated dozens of times to supply enough for local towns.
Fantastic stuff my friend 🎉
@@ShaneyElderberrymaybe he has a point. Maybe we should have less of importing and shipping crops all over the place and grow and eat more foods that are actually local and seasonal to us.
@@atruenut
Like maybe grow coffee in greenhouses ?
I'm form Vietnam, and as a coffee lovers, thanks for this video that helps me to understand the other sides of coffee. Sorry for my bad English, wish all of you will be great all time.
Your English is great:)
Your English is just fine 😊
I grow coffee in Brasil and have none of these issues mentioned here. I also cross pollinate species to get stronger, more disease resistant strains of Coffee while protecting the flavours we love.
Please, more brazilians should comment here to avoid mistakes about our industry here. They were totally biased showing farmers burning to depreciate our prices in the stock market.
Um grande abraço a todos os Brasileiros !!
Interesting because not in Brazil have this issue like in Europe. EU always will put something to block Brazilians goods like coffee,woods even from reforestation, etc
adding cool music makes this more cool to watch.. great.. 🤘
Being a farmer from Kenya thanks for the insights
The farm extension officers send by Ruto bado hawa nafika?
Thank you DW for another great documentary ! I really enjoy and learn so much from you. I'm from Brazil, and to be honest, nowadays it's rare for me to watch TV from my own country. The content available for free on UA-cam and specially in your channel is much more interesting. I hope i can watch your channel for years to come! Obrigado ! ☑☑☑
Thanks a lot for watching and for your positive feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to comment and
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Thank you DW , I too love your work we appreciate, Im from uganda I watch all your documentaries every time u post.
My request is please come to UGANDA too, and get to know our tasty coffee and if possible we German consumers. To buy from mi direct.
@@TRFA-u4t argh!
Purchased a coffee farm in Colombia post covid as farmers there were desperate to sell as years of low coffee prices had devastated their livelihood. They in turn turned to cheap chemical fertilizers to meet their expenses which in turn scorched the soil with years to get back to normal soil PH level. Many small farm owner’s children are heading to cities as they can’t make enough to even meet costs. Only those staying behind are large farm owners and those who can use the existing coffee farms as a private resort ( which is what I am doing). I have even uprooted a quarter of coffee plants on degraded soil and planted native trees so we can at least increase biodiversity. Coffee as a business is terrible and only suitable for those who have secondary source of income. Oh yes, the evil firm lurking behind to ensure farmers stay poor….Nespresso Aka Nestle. Their sustainable practices and rain forest certification are a joke for the price they pay these gullible farmers.
I think you missed the piece of Brazil. They produced coffee at all cost… mass production on a huge farm land even cutting down the forest gives them huge advantageous in scale of economic.
Thank you for the educative documentation of the work dedicated to harnessing agroecological practices. And the touch of music was really amazing, Imagine enjoying it while learning.
It’s not just coffee, the problem is with monoculture of any plants on land. The way we mass produce any product is bad for the environment period, unless big food corps can admit to this there is nothing anyone can do to make a difference.
Yes, let the people starve, right?
@@arnaldobellucci9033you did not catch what 2375 said.
You are right. Current farming is eliminating gene diversity.
In theory, farmers can suffer sudden disaster due to plant gnome problems, such as the story of bananas 🍌.
@@weinixiong8964 I did, you did not, modern agriculture is the reason food is abundant and cheap.
We have around 7 coffee trees in our home we do nothing to it just grows it’s around 30 years old or so
This is a problem also for other crops, here in Slovenia we feel climate change affect on farming already,
Great video spreading this problem ❤
As a coffee enthusiasts I am just loving it thank you..team DW
Coffee is one of my favourite things in life, but I agree it does have too high carbon footprint. Recently I've been trying to substitute it partially with chicory coffee and yerba mate. Thanks for the interesting video. Perhaps you could make an entire documentary about intercropping? In hotter areas of the world it's very popular, but nearly unknown in Europe. There's been some amazing long-term research on intercropping published in the recent years. Stuff worth sharing
All the Brazilian Coffee comes from The South, there is no Coffee crops in The Amazonian region.
Liberica is common in the Philipines-known as Kapeng Barako widely grown in the southern luzon provinces.
Do you grow coffee Philippines?
Yes. Not just in South Luzon, also in the mountains of the North as well.
@marianparulan6773 hello are you from Malaysia?
When I was a kid in Holualoa, Hawai'i, there were all kinds of different trees (banana, macadamia, avocado, etc.) and plants (ginger, ferns, pineapples etc.) growing amongst the coffee trees.
Great as always. again, kudos to the person selecting songs and the sound track! - stargatesequence
Summary of this video: some Germans travel across the globe by plane to check on their environmentally friendly coffee 🤣
yeah, instead, they should go there on foot and using a homemade camera for recording.
It was a wonderful ,interesting, and intellectual documentary about coffee ❤☕️ ❤️ .documentary introduced climate change and climate changes massive effectiveness on coffee plantation in Uganda 🇺🇬. While Ecuador 🇪🇨 through the preservation of farms' health through diversity of trees 🌳 plantation in one farm as framers ancestors did ....before Gaint companies around the world 🌎 exploiting large area of farms for one agriculture product ( rejected diversity which destroyed the health of farms 🚜 besides deforestation of forests....it was a great documentary..thanks
this documentary is distorted as it is not distinguishing between commercial and specialty coffee which are different markets! The new york commodities exchange determines the global price of commercial coffee which is based on exploitation of producers.... In central america farmers are abandoning coffee as the cost of picking coffee is higher than the gains...
Yeah. New York for Arabica, London for Robusta. If it hasn’t changed.
Liberica has been cultivated in Malaysia for years
There’s a monopoly on good coffee, for the last ten years !
Coffee must be grown in biodiverse forest where large trees provide shade which produce much better coffee beans!
We have Arabica and Robusta here in Bukidnon Province.
This video changed my opinion about coffee
Contemplating quitting coffee while sipping on my morning coffee.
8:30# music from Ghanaian artist
Now in my country Ivory Coast, it's already coffee season but it lacks, it's so difficult to find coffee and when you've found it, it's expensive. Before this season, a cup of coffee was 100Fcfa but now it's 150 and 200 fcfa
Not coffee pliz. 😢
I wouldn't crumble without coffee but may without tea.
Less of BlackRock, Nestle, greedy shareholders more of Dom Quixote Importers and such philosophy, congrats DW for the Documentary...
Agreed. Jocks > blackrock geekery
Climate change is not threatening coffee. Tread lightly here....
True that, is getting extremely commoditized to level we as roasters never had seen before, especially in South East Asia. The entire sustainability approach, organic systems, tariff that no longer serve the purpose, they break down like a deck of cards. All over EU paid too much externalities for a cup of coffee.
I can't shake off the worry that one day we might run out of coffee.
Either that, or it will become unaffordable.
They must develop the coffee farms in the Philippines.
The indigenous peoples were more interesting than the German hipsters.
Interesting choice to needlessly translate "intermediary" to "middlemen".
As a consumer, coffee in specific, and caffeine in general, it comes down to pricing. Want to curb consumption? Raise prices. Unless I'm affected financially, I don't really give a rat-a**. Fast food, plastic, cigarette.
Is that Omah Lay playing in the background?
Noooo DW....this can not happen 😢😢
It is all about how you can make more money. This is what you are concerned about. If you cannot make money from the goods
i started switching to black tea. it sucks, but one must adapt to higher costs and climate disaster.
Lots of warm fuzzy feelings here, but ideally some knowledge of coffee, South America, economics, and some common sense should have been used in the production of this sentimentary.
I very much like coffee. Drink it every morning brewed at home. Twice I’ve gone a year without it. But I’m ready to start drinking many different kinds of herbal teas instead. Coffee for me can be an occasional treat from 2024 and on ….
Apparently 20% of Ethiopias exports is coffee, I wonder how this is possible considering the country is outside of the growing belt?
Mountains
Better coffee agriculture practices are needed for sure. However I think many in the industry overemphasize taste, like these people.
Kind of like with alcohol, the majority of people drink coffee for the caffeine hit. For that, the price cannot get too high. (like most people aren't buying expensive whisky's but a cheaper pilsner)I think the majority of people are okay with a lesser tasting coffee as long as it still okay and a bit cheaper. This is why emphasizing on taste won't save coffee in my opinion. Mostly the minority that are really into coffee will enjoy that.
Although you are correct, it’s also the case that close to 100% of the people who seek specialty coffees from unique roasters are interested in the taste of the coffee. The roasters in the video certainly have patrons who care, and are willing to make regular orders if the flavors appeal to them. Even funky and odd flavors find their patrons.
@@ShaneyElderberry Oh for sure they know how to target their audience. And I think those smaller roasters have a customer base that values sustainability. But we really need to know how the larger industry as a whole is moving to a more sustainable future. That is where the real impact can be made. I think a lot of videos/docs like these are conflating the two.
Maybe give use you own energy in stead of driving and taking drugs to stay awake, and eat food thats alive and drink water its simple!
@DW Documentary, guys who is editing and approving these videos? 4:24, the BGM is wayyy to loud, doesn't fit the topic and interferes with the VO.
Hire me as your post production supervisor.
Is it only me that heard omah lay soso
I would die without coffee
¡The plants are controlling them!
Fair price = price control, is it not ?
20:35 What kinda BS is that, British colonies had to change coffee types in different regions for this very reason - pests, over a 150 years ago and everyone was riding around on horseback !
Everything evolves but Coffee
I’m sure we can grow it at home in our own greenhouses this is a positive change less mass production less transport. Lol
Now if coffee production wont stop polluters, i dont know what else.
So, now coffee available only to rich people? It's all about money, isn't it? And European Union as a dictatorship.
I love coffee ❤ ☕
You did a mistake about information from Brazil, you are totally wrong about Coffee production and climate situation here. You just got a frame of recently situation about burned farmers to blur our agricultural responsability here.
Immortal caffeine engine
If coffee were to disappear the world would go on just with a little less anxiety
From my perspective, it is a bad idea to work with suppliers from unfree countries, where the law is almost non-existent and corruption is widespread.
Honest people do not become 'head of a coffee farmers alliance' or business owners in such countries.
If you care about sustainability and fairness, work with democratic countries, where civil rights are respected.
No more coffee, chocolate, wine, bananas and Avocados.
There will be coffee. It will just be more expensive and taste worse.
God Save Coffee
12 years with no coffee , you dont need it
What do you need? Water, grains, veggie, air? If you have religion, enjoy the things god gives you. Cheer
My God...
The first cup of this addiction in the morning is so tasty, healthy, and refreshing.
Anyone who want to taste kenyan coffee.
If you’re sus about biodiversity
Activists & elites can’t flood towns right now. It takes buckets
i tune into this channel for LOLs.
Omah lay❤
I'm trying to use biblical practices for my fruit trees. I wonder if the same principles apply to coffee.
This American fastest long-range reconnaissance aircraft flying at an altitude of 26,000 meters at Mach 3.5 carries 46,254 liters of fuel. It consumes 21,000 liters per hour of flight, and the cost of one hour of flight is $18,000. The average EU country with population around 38 Milion people uses yearly - 28 million cubic meters. That means per person in the scale of year it is burned 760 liters of fuel - I ask, who is really polluting the planet? Why is there an organized ecological charade that indoctrinates people with nonsense, making them believe they are the ones responsible for climate change, and therefore must be taxed for it?"
This emphasizes the disparity between individual fuel consumption and the massive fuel requirements of a high-speed aircraft like the SR-71 Blackbird, questioning the focus of environmental policies on individual contributions rather than larger-scale industrial or military activities
Coffee is a waste... please stop drinking coffee.
Coffee is the only drug most people do😂😂legally
Only water should be allowed.
@@jim_jim1674 Nah, people will just piss it away.
This documentary just predicted that by 2050 half of the world’s coffee belt production regions will be depleted, meaning in 2050 will have only 50% of today’s coffee production. This is an appalling yet laughable prediction, where do you guys get this numbers and analysis? DW please elaborate on this one, how half the equatorial regions will stop producing coffee? And by the way in a few decades Liberica will be on the same spot that Robusta coffee is now after over exploitation and mono-cultivation.
They make it up out of thin air. Climate change is Politics.
Producing coffee in many areas will become economically not viable: it will become too expensive to produce, because with climate change yields will decrease. Many farmers with coffee plantations will give up and switch to other plants that are easier to grow in their areas and new climate.
Other areas may become more suitable for coffee, but there are no cofee plants growing there yet, and it takes many years and much investment to start a coffee growing plantation.
50% is a rough estimate - you can calculate your own numbers, if you feel like it.
good then,we guys indonesian should grow more coffee tree
It seems to evade a lot of people in the Documentation that there is something like a world market for coffee. The price of coffee is currently low not because of exploitation and several other ideologically based factors mentioned in the report, but because there were huge centrally planned coffee producing programs put into action in several States, especially in Vietnam in the past, which swamped the market with coffee which led to lower prices. Whenever world wide coffee production goes down, prices go up. Everybody can look it up on the international exchanges (here best Chicago). The documentary would benefit if it concentrated on the subject and not woke expectations. "Hamburg profited from Colonialism" - what does that have to do with the topic?, just to mention one example. By the way, during the last 60 years coffee was supposed to be on the way out several times and Bananas, and Tomatoes, and so on). Just the stated reasons sounded different. Today everything is "Climate Change".
The climate of the earth has always changed no matter what or how much co2 is in the air Antarctica was once covered in forest and so was the artic so it will continue to change. 😊
My coffee tasted bland lately. Blame climate change I supposed.
its the barista
Ecuador
I have an Arabica coffee farm in VietNam, if you want to know about Vietnamese coffee, contact me.
The best coffee is from Colombia 🇨🇴
Liberica is rare?! It's common in my area. 😮
mmm drink coffee and sleep tomorrow
Misleading information
when coffee died， we will change to another drink😂
Adapt. Grow in other places. By and large not the first time in history a major crop has had issues
I think the point of it being in subtropical areas is to make it easier. The water requirements for the plants are easier to control, the humidity is naturally there, and the acidic soil the plants need is there. If the plants are grown in other environments, the process becomes more expensive in resources like water, soil correction, and energy (greenhouses).
GreTtttt
Americans wont be affected as they don't drink real coffee
Come on I love coffee
Don’t worry Americans will make sure we have supply
0:02 Did i hear my naija song on DW? That should be omah lay's Soso.
Everything very interesting but you know that it is potent drug?
Calm down, people.
The world is going to be unsuitble to human life soon enough, so we don't need to worry about coffee disapearing.
We're leaving first.😂😂
Maybe if you live close to the equator. Out here in the northern US, the weather is just getting nicer.
I was amused this video goes on about colonialism and the the EU dictates where these people can plant and grow their coffee beans.
Actually I couldn't care less what Cortez did centuries ago, what matters is the coffee taste good and at a reasonable price.
Doesn't matter about the British in Uganda.
Does the coffee taste good?
If not, they can plow their coffee plants under and put up a factory that makes circuit boards for Chinese factories.
80's cool aero club bars chocolate 🫕
No more coffee no more chocolate. Maybe now people start realising they need to change😂
Rice, Wine, Bananas, Wheat, Potatoes, Avocados, Maple Syrup, Seafood all threatened too, and the list is growing....
Potatoes? I've grown them just fine in poor silty soil, are you sure?
@@myownsite Yep potatoes. Price has doubled here in New Zealand and I see in the States also. And they are on the struggle list.
@@HeartFeltGesture The price doubling has nothing to do with scarcity.
@@robertsteele474 It totally does. Late harvests, small yields and high demand.
What other reasons would you like to share?
Another scam to raise coffee prices 😂
Banning coffee is easiest solution. It is not something what people need.
What, grow food instead?
Also, that would put these self important parasites out of work.
I don't know the reason people will waste their time to cultivate coffee and cocoa
I don't know the reason why people waste their time commenting ABOUT people wasting their time to cultivate coffee and coco.
Humans need cocoa more than coffee.
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