Saturday, November 24, 2012

Climate change threat to Arabica coffee crops


Climate change could severely reduce the areas suitable for wild Arabica coffee before the end of the century.

That is the conclusion of work by a UK-Ethiopian team published in the academic journal Plos One.

It supports predictions that a changing climate could damage global production of coffee - the world's second most traded commodity after oil.

See full Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20252472