[000:00:00;00] ah, it's germany's faber drink, and after a crude oil, it's the world's most traded commodity. coffee makes many traitors, and roaster is rich, but growers stay poor. many are forced to give up their plantations. in tamaqua here, coffee drinkers tend to pay a lot, but the growers get very little karate valuable producing it harms the environment . unconventional cultivation isn't the only problem. the fastest way to get organic is to cut down a virgin forest and then play coffee. and it will just go crazy and then just

vice huge piles of organic waste remain. so this is a super fix. that right now is going to waste the beans off and travel halfway across the world. good. this plant be grown more locally in germany. jesus, this field will be coffee. this plant has a future. it's time to take a hard look at how we consume and produce coffee. is there another way? ah look at 1700 meters in the honduran highlands. the viet vinitez is reaping the fruits of his labor tunnel almost could bundle broken on a bit. we only picked the bright red cherries from the pin. for his unlock or thumb,

we leave the rest to ripen further. yes, emma dotted company ah, here in the hills of santa alaina, the young coffee grow or brave the sun, drought and market power. his adobe house without electricity has become a nucleus of change. his siblings, parents and grandfather also live here to save the farm. they've had to learn the new methods. david vinitez introduced after studying agriculture. when i, when laura said that of the, i don't know, maybe if he, in honduras most farms had been lost. delilah was care, so mother ratliff, some communities have left her old bonds behind and cut on forest to plant more coffee yet. yes, of course, that's not right. last time we get the many abandoned plantations and fresh, clear,

or abundance of the destruction or conventional sun ground. coffee is one leading cause of deforestation. every cup of coffee that's consumed destroys about 5 square centimeters of rain. forest, coffee grown in full sun brings the highest yield, which is why nearly half of the acreage and central america has been converted for this type of cultivation. another 25 percent is being converted. daddy benitez does things differently. melissa is audible. the mrs. guam, a tree was out of these to provide shade and enriched the soil with organic material material. danny, he grows his plants in the shade of the forest canopy and cafe northeast that the coffee is less stressed by the sun. my load i see on the plan ripens a bit slower yet, but the quality is higher,

but i see on by minimal also shaded coffee plans don't need heavy irrigation full sun cultivation, however, requires enormous amounts of water as does the industrial processing of the beans producing just one cup of coffee requires about 140 leaders of water. a kilogram of coffee requires 21000 leaders that could just about phyllis swimming pool. after cocoa coffee is among the food stamps with the highest water consumption deputy benitez doesn't waste a drop. the lower kimmie, my elderly lookout. i watched the coffee in a barrel bottling below. then i mixed some of the water into the compost. the rest i used to water the farm. bella. my. it contains lots of nutrients from the cherry pulp. hello, lee. yea, daniel trent, when the bead vinitez switched to where gannet growing, his father was skeptical,

but not any more. ever for lucille, this is the answer from faith, but of yet on our ancestors. he lived this way for thousands of years yet that com . okay, how could the big corporation say we can't survive without conventional agriculture? committee or not? no, i'm a, be it so dilly, so as that they thought they designed it. we used to use a lot of fertilizers, fungicides, insecticides, everything. the transnational corporations gave us come out of dealing solar when we 1st switched organic farming production dropped 50 or 60 percent boca hill st when but then at stabilize and is now on the upswing. hill that under your own, went on the put him plan every year. little by little are coffee, harvest increases m l like before, where we'd have a good yield one year and a bad one. the next? yes, he and daniel had a book, a book shelf that e vinitez wants to achieve even more. he's driving to convince other coffee farmers

in the region of this method. oh, here 2 in south western germany pioneering work is happening. i am. if you see this here, it looks pretty desolate. a bunch of thistles in hair are edge. they made a, there's a sample, it's due to the weather, our village, but that we don't spray, so we have to put up with the weeds. liam current among the undergrowth grows their most valuable crop. i wonder that unless you, when he hear that rattling inside the hod. yeah, then it's dry enough to thrash is a scorpion. some brazen, ellis, in flits, cline, have developed the regional alternative to coffee there. finally, having a break through many years in the making vermani and shawn 6 and finally they are

making live in coffee for 26 years now, not guns, another me, but the generation back then said no thanks. we can afford real coffee now on the so today's generation says, no, we want to ensure a healthy climate size. coffee produced to a conventional cultivation travels thousands of kilometers to reach germany. growing lou pins in many seats allotted c o 2 emissions in transport. and it improves the local soil, di lupina lubin has very long happ routes and therefore can draw from those sources than usual. i'm from lay stretched down about 5 meters, me to where there is water. even in these dry summit, this is all been done, openly isn't hockman zone. it's really a plan for the future, especially in terms of a climate so called langford, i'm in this wasn't such an issue back when the klein's 1st. we discovered this dynamic flowering lagoon.

busy the night for a 3rd figure out a bottle of 19 sixty's newton was the protein crop in northern germany. as the billing authority bothered him. a wider co together event with cheap saw imports. it was forgotten. something's wrong with it. rob ish or shoulder be slow, thornton, i'm how i was able to help bring it back down and i'm happy that i could have mr. about offers, but he thought was torn cotton ah, that lines were also keen to experiment. the 1st tried roasting them in a pan reached on vicinity, pop smells a bit like popcorn. most personally bonded to edc. the original idea was to make an type of tofu additional. so i mean for though i wasn't too enthusiastic because i thought it might go bad fairly quickly as this flight of election registered and

who would buy it stuff of carved for eyes. yes, he is. the guy told you wasn't so in like it is today. that's why we then experimented with roasting coffee from it, because even then everyone drank coffee to celebrate the good harvest, the blinds are serving homemade cake made with little been fly along with their caffeine free coffee alternative the peano. they're also planning to launch a new lupin product by the end of the year. it's a big day in santa elaine, on the coffee harvest is being brought to the roster, low bow unloads coffee from the ve benitez and other small holders. lowell powell is from the u. s. and his wife myra oriano. powell is from this area together,

they founded the contract community the initiative sells this regional organic coffee in the united states. they then use the profits to support environmental and social projects and honduras for traders. not enough farmer's luck getting ahead. so is it, is it better than nothing? yeah, but is it enough? no, because he doesn't have any disposable income for me, was coffee's about is the people behind in, if we need to treat people with respect. and so sometimes giving people respect, he's paying more for for their normal power. was a prosecutor at u. s. immigration for 12 years, he knows the fates awaiting those who have to give up their coffee plantations and emigrate. i left my job. i just didn't like prosecuting people. right,

wasn't, you know, you rather be around people helping them here. i still feel like i'm a lawyer, but the other kind of lawyer, there's a problem. my job is to fix it. with a contract initiative, the couple promotes more humane and sustainable production. they also support further education programs and fair wages. we don't have to be increasing our earnings by 10 percent, 20 percent every year. why not earn 5 percent and then leave 15 percent with people that actually make it happen. so i think is, is greedy, that is taking us to destruction because they were not taking care of the environment. would not they can go, especially people i don't think is, is some thing impossible. i think we need to support people like the v loa powell collect the harvests from the initiative. small farmers. what he sees during

his trips to other plantations worries him. hormones like he and i think that everyone who used to have traditional farms with good coffee varieties and lots of shade trees, e con, but then many started switching to conventional cultivation to ramp up production. dear mention that's the wrong way. so it might come, you know, put ales along with each benitez. the initiative wants to show the farmers that there is a better way. it may not turn a quick profit, but it's sustainable. with gloria ventura took over the family farm. she's had to rebuild it every month ahead. i mean, if possible,

my husband used to do everything now for 4 years. it's been just me use her husband abandoned the plantation because of a nasty rust found us looking more. let us empathy. i'm low, low, a rust fungus hits. sometimes the fruit doesn't ripen and recant. harvest would have thought of a one year if the good harvest i knew and the next year there's nothing new. yeah. miramar that a fellow in full sun, cultivation and climate change week in the plants paving the way for the destructive fungus to spread rapidly across central america. since 2012, its been destroying the livelihoods of thousands of coffee farmers, including that of glory as husband who emigrated with her 6 children to the us for work. many thousands of farmers from central america attempt to that same trick every year. if they make it into the us,

they usually take on unskilled labor and send their hard earned money back home to their families. of santa alaina's, 14000 residence, 2000 left their homes for the us last year. david benitez wants to show those who remain how to build resilient farms. the gothic with our bower formed on coffee drawn and shade is less susceptible to rust, mongolia, a step by step, the farmer should make the transition to shaded cultivation on one professor. but as is young, together they draw up a plan that will help gloria ventura. increase her yield, griffin, diarrhea, anabolic lawyer, complaint trees, all along the banks of the creature and that our motto, malaria, this will increase the humidity in the area and micro organisms and warms will do their work. i've. ah,

gloria ventura is among the babies. small holders who have joined to the petrovitch community, they benefit from its sale system. i am i at if robotic atlantic i most coffee rowers need to take out loans and what their own goes to paying them off in the thought of in their money. but it's different with gotcha hotels, but it, but i'm, unless we harvest enjoy the beans and so directly on the day after yeah, i mean the effect and we make more profit as i yield the name of my benefit, the coffee market fluctuate greatly in the last 4 years the farmers burned on average, less than one euro per pound. fair trade brings and roughly one euro $0.30. through the cut russia initiative, they earn almost double that but better pay

is not the only perch levied. benitez and the contractual initiative have even more ideas to benefit coffee growers a with. ready change is also a foot in nicaragua. carol whitmeyer has traveled from the u. s. for this pile of waste. this is the cascade on the left over that we hope one day this pile will completely disappear. so this is a super food that right now is going to waste. and if we can turn that into a nutritious food, that's the goal. carol whitmire has come to nicaragua for the coffee, cherry start up. this is our 1st visit to the facility where this, suppose it waste is being turned into a high quality product. all of that coffee still a startup,

we are still small. and one of our biggest challenges has been educating both consumers and companies who can buy this as a wholesale ingredient. we're creating a whole new market where you can smell the coffee with the coffee supplied by the farmers is pitted here by machine, then it sorted washed and dried. ah, the industry is focused on the coffee bean. but the cherry encasing it makes a 40 percent of the frauds wait. $322000000.00 tons per year of pulp are discarded worldwide. it's a major environmental problem. the heaps of rotting fruit, release methane, acidify the soil and contaminate the water. the facility manager shows carol

whitmeyer, how the team processes the coffee cherries are useful, a liquid process, the coffee flour team, a all they transport the cherries to the trying area. ethical banter. they catch the front skins before they're fallen to the buckets under discarded electric with one of the saves the skin for, for the processing just got on the planet. carol with myers company in the us, produces flour and flakes from the dried fruit. it got the dried fruit dose and all of the sensory, the roller that we look for in carbon sharing. farmers have not been paid for that before. now we will pay them for that. so it is new income 80 workers have been hired for the business here. flower and flakes are already on the market in north america. recently, coffee, cherries,

or also approved in germany. ah. all of this is available to be sent to europe. this is all available now, but it's not only in the major export countries that coffee cherries are being reconsidered as an ingredient. let's go get to go see the 1st cherry again. carol whitmeyer wants to learn about the work and see the fresh fruit up close for the 1st time. i finally get to taste it. it's got this wonderful sweetness to it. those taste amazing various types of coffee grow on this organic plantation and nicaragua, until now, local residents didn't consider the yellow and red cherries suitable for consumption time for some experimentation in the canteen,

where 3 meals are prepared daily for the farms employees. so how many tortillas do you serve a day? walk almost 1500 or t as for b, the old people for permanent workers. yeah. they're testing out how dried coffee cherries taste in traditional tortillas. the new ingredient could offer some extra nutritional value. in addition to caffeine, the coffee cherry contains a lot of anti oxidants minerals and protein, and it's more than 50 per cent fiber. a farm is manager is excited about the new product. this is a really good idea for him. vitamin 2 addresses so much farmers full time, they drove on the river school yet and many of frequent i mean it. but how does it taste? here comes the moment of truth. ah,

my my offer days. i feel like a fruit slater. with 340, i like both, you know, in the us. some restaurants and bakeries have already begun incorporating coffee cherry flour into their menus a chest. jason wilson shows off which dishes utilize the ingredient and his upscale restaurant. he's been working with a startup from the outset, and is constantly developing new recipes. we did the okay, we did some madeline's, we made some chocolate cakes that i worked with this. i feel like tirelessly to figure out the water replacement ratios are different recipes. because this is fruit powder, essentially with m. it's a very high fiber fruit,

as wells with jason wilson wants to sell this crunchy granola with coffee cherry flour in supermarkets with dab eat. benitez has many ideas on how to revolutionize coffee growing in his home country. all while inspiring other growers on the contract cooperatives farm. he's devoting himself to his latest project, a teaching garden i from what we're growing more than 100 plant species here. we're telling people that you just grown a small space and grow a diversity. and this is the same thing that davina is doing in their mouth. fletcher is seen and he had moved the ation from very simone agriculture. some of this in the end or last him. yeah. so yes,

we're showing our knowledge with the community on how to go need of seeds and avoid using pesticides that harm the environment gender upon not samantha on that on that . and so these are things that farmers can apply at their own houses. so her hope is when people come here, you like, oh, i can do that. the via the neatest combines the knowledge entries indigenous ancestors with the insights of modern agriculture. he knows how vital it is to use every part of the coffee plant and waste nothing. hello, you'll adam home beneficial. if we take our coffee to a mill, the fruits guns are discarded. battles in lab only put the coffee ourselves. we can turn the fruit skins and the fertilizer in order to let him up. we'll catch a lease by young farmer from the neighbourhood is curious to hacking and now we add micro organisms. naval the la every 30 days. sometimes 2 or 3 times. no,

depending. got a little get got if this is a great fertilizer which we use for vegetables. coffee but for all crops. but it got big but i thought of the deals alongside coffee. he's planting fruits, vegetables, herbs, beans, and corn on his families to hector's. more mixed cultivation strengthens the plans and provides his family with something extra. mm. let me holler at the best rebellion is to produce what you consume. so you don't have to depend on the trans national companies with against the odds. davita vinitez has managed to drive as a small farmer in honduras. ah, ah, he's also introducing new methods to others. and sharing his knowledge, ah,

ah, the young coffee farmer is determined to stay in his home then. ah, ah, he may wipe and i don't know, but i found you in the way, if i went, for example, to the u. s. i would on dollars of course, mandela carla seemed yet a thing, but the money had sent back here we'll go straight to buying food. and now that makes no sense in all the same little gama, close to noon. instead, we produce what we consume and eat what we produce. that's the best welfare is on the holiday, jessica. on unless i aneurism. the nettle, not one of our dreams is to have a farm school where growers can come here and learn about what we do. a fan, a man who inspires others and shoes. when it comes to coffee, there is another way.

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