Scientists at the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and collaborators in Ethiopia have today
published an innovative new study on the impact of climate change on
coffee farming in Ethiopia. The research, conducted over a three-year
period, investigated the potential for building a climate resilient
coffee economy for Ethiopia.
The paper, published today in Nature Plants, is called 'Resilience potential of the Ethiopian coffee sector under climate change'.
Ethiopia is the
world's fifth largest coffee producer and Africa's main exporter. In
2015/16, 180,000 metric tonnes of coffee at a value of US$800m was
exported from the country, generating a quarter of the country's export
earnings and providing livelihoods for around 15 million Ethiopians.
Against a backdrop
of rapidly increasing temperatures and decreasing rainfall, there was an
urgent need to understand how climate change is influencing coffee
production and what the options for the future are. READMORE
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