Is Climate Change Putting the Future of Coffee at Risk?
IRI and Fairtrade International host a virtual event about the future of coffee production in a changing climate
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ACToday Q&A: J. Nicolás Hernandez-Aguilera on Coffee and Climate
IRI’s Juan Nicolás Hernandez-Aguilera discusses his research on sustainable coffee production. Originally from Colombia, his interest in the stark contrast between Colombia’s natural resource wealth and high levels of inequality, rural violence and deforestation has manifested in feeling a “responsibility to bring research toward action.”
Making Coffee Production Sustainable
First study to quantify economic trade-offs of shifting from conventional to shade-grown coffee production. Model suggests farmers can optimize coffee profits by converting one to two-thirds of their acreage to shade-grown.