species and discover new potential world wide in defiance of big corporations. good coffee. next auntie w. ah a, what people have to say matters to us. mm. that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d w. o . 6 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

coffee drinkers tend to pay a lot, but the growers get very little courtesy vehicle 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 buys huge piles of organic waste remain. so this is a super food 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? diesel? 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,

ah. you look at 1700 meters in the honduran highlands. the viet benitez is reaping the fruits of his labour kilometers. could bundle look around them 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 out of country. ah, here in the hills of santa alaina, the young coffee grow were 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. davida benitez introduced after studying agriculture. when i,

when laura said that the, i don't know my idea of ink in honduras, most farms had been lost. the latter was case old mother ratliff. some communities have left their old bonds behind and cut down forest to plant more coffee. and yes, of course, that's not right. last time we get the many abandoned plantations and fresh clear cuts are evidence 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 vinitez does things differently. when i 1st thought about this as a guam,

a tree for thought of these trees provide shade and, and rich the soil with organic material, the material danny. he grows as plants in the shade of the forest canopy. coffee, ne, 3, the coffee is less stressed by the sun. lemme without feeling the plan ripens a bit slower yet, but the quality is higher, but i see on buffer. metal also shaded coffee plans don't need heavy irrigation fulsome cultivation, however, requires enormous amounts of water as does the industrial processing of the beans producing just one cup of coffee require is 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 stuffs with the highest water consumption doesn't

benitez doesn't waste a drop. the lower give me my battery locale. i washed the coffee in a barrel bottling villa, 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. lucila lee. yea, daniel grant. when debbie vinitez switched to where, again, a growing, his father was skeptical, but not any more elephant lucille, this is the answer to from faith, but of yet on our ancestors. he lived this way for thousands of years yet that coma k. how could the big corporations say we can't survive without conventional agriculture? committee or not? no, i'm a b i. so dyllis i'll, as dante, sort of design this, we used to use a lot of fertilizers, fungicides, insecticides, everything. the transnational corporations gave us some data dealing so when we 1st

switched organic farming production dropped 50 or 60 percent. but kathy will say when berlin at stabilize and is now on the upswing, hollywood and they own went on the plan 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 backup oak chill that he vinitez wants to achieve. even more. he striving 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 here, but we don't spray so we have to put up with the weeds. liam kern 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 for among have shown 6 and my lead are making live in coffee for 26 years. no, 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 produce to conventional cultivation travels thousands of kilometers to reach germany. growing lou pins in germany saves a lot of seo to missions in transport. and it improves the local soil. d. lupina lubin has very long tap roots and therefore can draw from those sources than usual . they stretch 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 torkel plans are for i'm if this wasn't such an issue back when the klein's 1st, we discovered this dynamic flowering lagoon blazing, denied her figure out a bottle of 19 sixty's lupin was the protein crop in northern germany. or is depending if oil embroidered in my why the car to get the event with a cheap saw imports. it was forgotten. something's wrong with it. rob is shauna bessler thornton, i'm how i was able to help bring it back down and i'm happy that i could restore my daughter's 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 a popcorn. most personally bonded to edc. the original idea was to make an type of tofu. i mean, for there of, i'm not too enthusiastic because i thought it might go bad fairly quickly. does this flight of election registered and who would buy it? stuff of carved for ice. yes, he is. a guy 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 flour, along with their kathy free coffee alternative latino. they're also planning to launch a new loop and product by the end of the year. it's

a big day in st alena, 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 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 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, uh, 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 are actually make it happen. so i think is greedy that is taking us to destruction because they were not taking care of the environment. we're not, they can go. especially people i don't think is is something 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 tall mando, a key t. 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 convention. that's the wrong way. production model, camino put ales. along with each benita ask the initiative, wants to show the farmers that there is a better way. it may not turn

a quite profit, but it 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 and her husband abandoned the plantation because of a nasty breast found this looking more less emphasis. i'm larry thrust fungus hits . sometimes the fruit doesn't ripen and recount harvest without food, gothic one. yeah. it's a good harvest and you know, and the next year there is nothing new. yeah. it a full 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 glorious 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 with the gothic without both armed on coffee, drawn and shade is less susceptible to rusty hunger. a step by step, the farmer should make the transition to shaded cultivation on one professor. but i

feel together they draw up a plan that will help gloria ventura. increase her yield. yes, andrea had a bullet lawyer, complaint trees all along the banks of the creek. and that our motto made ru, this will increase the humidity in the area, and micro organisms and warms will do their work. and if at all, gloria ventura is among the ab small holders who have joined to the petrov community. they benefit from its sale system with my idea of both authentic as i got to play. most coffee rowers need to take out loans and what their earned goes to paying them off and the sort of in there, most of that it's different with gotcha. and hotels put it, but i'm, unless we harvest enjoy the beans and sal directly or the day of the yeah, i mean 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. 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 ensure 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, kathy. we're still a startup. we're 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's sorted washed and dried. ah, the industry is focused on the coffee bean, but the cherry encasing it,

makes up 40 percent of the frauds 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 or a transport the cherries to the trying area. i say a lot africa panther to catch the fruit skins before they fall into the bucket under discarded electric with one of the saves the skin for, for the processing just got an idea of this is carol with myers company in the us, produces flower and flakes. from the dried fruit it got the dried fruit dose and all of the sensory,

the aurora that we look for in coffee, cherry 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. flour and flakes are already on the market in north america. recently, coffee cherries were also approved in germany. 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 b again. carol whitmeyer wants to learn about the work and see the fresh fruit up close for the 1st time. i finally get a taste one. 0,

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 or d, as for this, the old people for the 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. ah, 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, yes. but how does it taste? here comes the moment of truth, gong 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. i with chess, jason wilson shows off which dishes utilized 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 us. 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. whereas under contract cooperatives farm, he's devoting himself to his latest project,

a teaching garden i. from when we're growing than 100 plants species here. well we're telling people that gail, just grown a small space and grow a diverse e. and this is the same thing that dog eat is doing. and their motto, chair is seen kids movie a something that heavy simone agriculture. if 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. and so these are things that farmers can apply at their own houses. so our hope is when people come here you like, oh, i can do that. debbie vinitez combines the knowledge of his indigenous ancestors within sight of modern agriculture. he knows how vital it is to use every part of the coffee plant and waste nothing to kill you adam, home. but if he is here,

if we take 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 a fertilizer in order to let him catch the lease by young farmer from the neighbourhood is curious to hacking. and now we add micro organisms . naval hello every 30 days. sometimes 2 or 3 times, no, depending on 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 foundries to hector's. men of more mixed cultivation strengthens the plans and provides his family with something extra. um, let me order the best rebellion is to produce what you consume. so you don't have to depend on the transnational companies with against the odds of each the

neatest has managed to drive as a small farmer in hon dora. 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 want, but i am hoping i found you. in the way, if i women, for example, to the u. s, i mean i would on dollars of course mondo like fame yet a thing. but then on he had sent back here will go straight to buying food thing. now that makes no sense in all the po, see in montgomery course news. instead we produce what we consume and eat what we

produce. that's the best well, fair is on the holiday, jessica. on the, unless i knew it and then that will not one of our dreams is to have a farm school where growers can come here and learn about what we do a man who inspires others and shoes. when it comes to coffee, there is another way ah ah, with

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