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Climate Solutions for the Future of Coffee

Civil Eats

Climate change causes labor problems and hurts farm owners, too. With increasingly tight margins, farm owners can’t afford the upgrades needed to make their coffee production more water-efficient, and they can’t buy new cultivars that resist coffee rust and heat. A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia.

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25 Books Guiding Us Toward More Regenerative Food Systems

Food Tank

Gilbert (Forthcoming March 2024) Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming the Land tells the story of a group of Indonesian agricultural workers who started a movement when they began occupying an agribusiness plantation near their homes. Author David E. Moseley In Decolonizing African Agriculture , William G.

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