WRITTEN BY H. STERLING BURNETT ON MAR 20, 2024. POSTED IN NEWS AND OPINION
Globally, Coffee Crops Setting Records Amid Mild Warming, Contradicting Media
An Al Jazeera story claims that climate change is threatening coffee production in Vietnam. This is false.
Had Al Jazeera bothered to check readily available data, it would have found that coffee production in Vietnam and globally has repeatedly set new records for yield and production over the past thirty years of climate change.
In the story, “Coffee’s in danger: Can Vietnam’s Robusta Save it from Climate Change?,” Jenny Gustafsson describes how Vietnamese researchers are trying to avoid a climate change-induced coffee apocalypse by modifying the Robusta coffee bean to a flavor profile closer to the Arabica bean.
“In the coffee industry, Robusta is known as the inferior sibling of Arabica, lacking the latter’s complexity and sweeter, smoother notes. Robusta is almost always mass-produced and cheap,” writes Gustafsson. “‘The Robusta market is only looking for the best price. But we can change that,’ Nguyen Van Hoa says.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/globally-coffee-crops-setting-records-amid-mild-warming-contradicting-media/
