Grow our own: it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee
In response to predictions of a global coffee shortage, non-profit institute World Coffee Research is undertaking international coffee-growing trials, testing 35 vareities of coffee across 23 countries, including Australia.
While Australia has a limited association with coffee production, parts of the country have potentially favourable conditions for successfully growing the coffee plant.
Extreme weather events and a rise in attacks by crop pests and diseases are expected to damage the world’s current major coffee-growing regions. Meanwhile, “demand for coffee is expected to double by the year 2050,” according to partnership director at the institute, Greg Meenahan. “If nothing is done, more than half the world’s suitable coffee land will be pushed into unsuitability due to climate change.”
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