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champions, france on panels, it's argentina's 1st will come when in 36 years and football legend lena massey's fist ever and with that you are up to date up next here on d. w. good coffee. the best of the bead looks at innovative ways of growing coffee and the benefits for both the environments and before that you and for that. remember this much more news for you on our website. that's d w dot com. you can find us on twitter and instagram to be out at the w. how long they brief. ah, they have body and soul. the houses that daniel leaders can construct for more than just building you have to be
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radical. that's a radical means. go back to the roof. he is the son of jewish holocaust survivors. how walking that i was able to build to just present berlin is architecture is a celebration of democracy and one building. the biggest thing in the world is the spirit of freedom and architect of emotions. this kid starts december 25th oh, d w ah, it's germany's faber drink. and after a crude oil, it's the world's most traded commodity. coffee makes many traders and roaster is rich, but growers stay poor. many are forced to give up their plantations. can tamaqua
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coffee drinkers tend to pay a lot, but the growers get very little quality variable 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 any more. just go crazy and then just vice huge piles of organic waste remain. so this is a super for that right now is going to waste the beans off and travel halfway across the world. could this plant be grown more locally and germany is, is 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
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look at 1700 meters in the honduran highlands, the viet vinitez is reaping the fruits of his labor tunnel almost caught bundle. look around him being, we only picked the bright red cherries from the pin for his own awkward thumb. we leave the rest to ripen further and get him on without his company with here in the hills of santa alaina, the young coffee grow or breaks the sun, drought and market power. his adobe house without electricity, has become a nucleus of changed. his siblings, parents and grandfather also live here to save the farm. they've had to learn the new methods. david vinitez introduced to studying agriculture venue. and us said
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that the, i don't know, maybe if he, in honduras most farms had been lost, fella was care. so mother ratliff, some communities have left her old bonds behind and cut on forest to plant more coffee. and yes, of course that's not right. no family gave the many abandoned plantations and fresh clear evidence of the destruction are 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, benito does things differently. melissa is audible. the, this is a guam,
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a tree. the side of these trees provide shade and on which the soil with organic material, longer 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. but my load, i see only on the plan ripens a bit slower than that, but the quality is higher quality on both 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 beams 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
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benitez doesn't waste a drop. allow kimmy my at about to leave and look out. i watched the coffee in a barrel bottling that will, i will then i mix 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. he loy, yay again or 3 months. when the bead vinitez switched to, we're again growing. his father was skeptical, but not any more ever. so lucille, this is the answer from faith. but of the vietnam, our ancestors lived this way for thousands of years yet. dot com. okay, how could the big corporation say we can't survive without conventional agriculture? companies are not gonna be so dyllis aisle 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
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we 1st switched organic farming production dropped. 50 or 60 percent boa casio. st . wendeborn had stabilize and is now on the upswing. it under your own, went on the program plan every year. little by little our coffee harvest increases m l like before, where we'd have a good yield one year and a bad one the next years he and daniel had a book, a book shelf that he 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. if he has he vis 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, over village, but that we don't spray so we have to put up with the weeds. liam kern among the undergrowth grows their most valuable crop.
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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 for among have shown 6 and my lead are making live in coffee for 26 years now not guns another, but the generation back then said no thanks. we can afford real coffee, now's on the so today's generation says, no, we want to ensure a healthy climate size coffee produced to conventional cultivation travels thousands of kilometers to reach germany. growing lou pins in many seats, a lot of c o. 2 emissions in transport. and it improves the local soil, di lupina lubin has very long tap roots and therefore can draw from noise sources
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than usual. i'm from lay stretched down about 5 meters, me to where there is water. even in these dry summit, this is over done often, isn't hawkins on it's really a plan for the future. especially in terms of climate. so, plans if i'm, if this wasn't such an issue back when the klein's 1st, we discovered this dynamic flowering lagoon busy denying her face, figuring out a bottle of 19 sixty's newton was the protein crop in northern germany as the billing authority brought in my why the car to get the event with the chief saw imports. it was forgotten. something's wrong with it was your 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 office that he thought was torn cotton ah,
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that lines were also keen to experiment. the 1st tried roasting them in a pan, reached on vicinity, pop smells a bit like a popcorn movie personally bonded to edc. the original idea was to make an type of tofu additional. so i mean for there. well, i wasn't too enthusiastic because i thought it might go bad fairly quickly. does this flight of election registered and who would buy it? none of carved for i'm here this years ago. totally wasn't so in like it is today. why do 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 lupin flow, along with their caffeine, free coffee, alternative, latino. they're also planning to launch a new loop and product by the end of the here
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with it's a big day in st alena. the copy 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 farmers are not 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 coffees about is the people behind in if we need to treat people with respect
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and so sometimes giving people respect, explain 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
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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. we're not, they can go specific people i don't think is, is some thing impossible. i think we need to support people like the, the normal powell collect the harvests from the initiative. small farmers, what he sees during his trips to other plantations worries him torn down to like heat d. m a 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 convention, it's the wrong way, strokes young malcolm. you know what ails belong with david's benitez. the initiative wants to show the farmers that there is
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a better way. it may now turn a quick profit, but it's sustainable. with laurie ventura took over the family farm. she's had to rebuild it every month i had, i mean foster, 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 breast found us looking more. let us empathy. i'm low, low, a rust fungus hits. sometimes the fruit doesn't ripen and we can't harvest that boy one year if the good harvest i know, and the next year there is nothing, daniel? yeah. miramar for the fellow in full sun cultivation and climate change weaken the
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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 trek 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 rusty hunger . a step by step,
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the farmer should make the transition to shaded cultivation. come on professor blanche, all. together they draw up a plan that will help gloria ventura. increase her yield. gave him diarrhea, had a bullet, gloria, complaint trees all along the banks of the creek drive and that our motto, malaria, this will increase the humidity in the area and micro organisms and warms will do their work. stella ah, gloria ventura is among the these small holders who have joined to the petrovitch a community they benefit from its sales system. with my idea of body panic i, most coffee growers need to take out loans and what their own goes to paying them off. and the other in their most, but it's different with gotcha hotels, but it, but i'm, unless we harvest enjoy the beans and so directly or the day after. yeah,
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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. i with 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
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a super food that right now is going to waste. and if we can turn that into 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 there you can smell the coffee with the coffee supplied by the farmers is pitted here by machine. then it's sorted washed and dried. ah, the industry is focused on the coffee bean,
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but the cherry encasing it makes up 40 percent of the fluids weight. $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. i say a lot africa that there and they catch the fruit skins before they're fallen to the bucket 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.
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it's got the dried fruit dose and all of the sensory, the roller that we look for in coverage. hearing. farmers have not been paid for that before. now we will pay them for that, so it is new income $80.00 workers have been hired for the business here. flour and flakes are already on the market in north america. recently, coffee cherries 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.
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it's got this wonderful sweetness too. it does take amazing various types of coffee, gro, 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 tortillas for all people for permanent workers. here, 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,
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and it's more than 50 per cent fiber with the pharmacy 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 stool yet and many is 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. one of your la, i'm with chest. jason wilson shows off which dishes utilize the ingredient and his upscale
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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 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 brow wares on the contract cooperatives farm. he's devoting himself to his latest project,
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a teaching garden i. from when 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 and their mouth watch her is seen. and kids move the asian from godaddy from own agriculture. the thermal def, in the, in the latin mia kalia. we're sharing our knowledge with the community on how to go native seeds dance and avoid using pesticides that harm the environment. gender cannot see me at the one that, that on that. so these are things that farmers can apply at their own houses. so our hope is when people come here, you're like, oh, i can do that. debbie vinitez combines the knowledge of his indigenous ancestors with the insides of modern agriculture. he knows how vital it is to use every part of the coffee plant and waste nothing to kill you out of my own benefit. if we take
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our coffee to a mill, the fruit skins are discarded. battles, but when we 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 know the pin deal, go to look at it. 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 hm. i'm a lot of 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.
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davita vinitez has managed to thrive 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 homeland. ah, ah, he may wipe on. i am hoping i found you. in the way if i women, for example, to the u. s i would on dollars of course, mandela carla same, the other 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 course. we'll miss. instead,
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we produce what we consume and eat what we produce. that's the best well, fair is summer holiday jessica. on unless i aneurism. and that'll not one of our dreams is to have a farm school where growers can come here and learn about what we do. i can offer a sale, a man who inspires others and shoes. when it comes to coffee, there is another way. ah ah ah
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