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tv   To the Point  Deutsche Welle  March 10, 2023 12:30pm-1:01pm CET

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ah, his brother has just land line from 500 to 600 euro currently more people than ever on the move worldwide in such a better life. it all is a very difficult johnny. and one greek army control is very hard. they beat you, they take all everything, all your stuff, find out about some man story, info, migrant, reliable news to migrate wherever they may be. i . 6 it's germany's faber drink, and after 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 to lativia people 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 food that right now is going to waste the beans off and travel halfway across the world. could this plant be grown more locally in 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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ah. you look at 1700 meters in the honduran highlands. the viet vinitez is reaping the fruits of his labor. kilometers could bundle lagrano being we only picked the bright red cherries from the pin for his unlocked thump. we leave the rest to ripen further and get him out out of country. 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 davida benitez introduced after studying agriculture. when i,
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when laura said that the, i don't know, maybe if he, in honduras most farms had been lost. the latter was case old mother ratliff. some communities have left their old ponds behind and cut down forest to plant more coffee. and yes, of course, that's not right. last time we did the many abandoned plantations and fresh, clear evidence of the destruction 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 like this is a guam
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a tree. it's a side of these to provide shade and enrich the soil with organic material along a 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. la. my load i see only on the plan ripens a bit slower yet, 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 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
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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. hello, lee. yea, daniel trent, when the bead vinitez switched to where gannon 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 corporations say we can't survive without conventional agriculture? committee or not? no family, it so daily. so as that they thought of the design. 3rd, we used to use a lot of fertilizers, fungicides, insecticides, everything. the transnational corporations gave us some data dealing solar when we
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1st switched organic farming production dropped 50 or 60 percent boca feel safe when presented, stabilize, and is now on the upswing. it under your own, went on the premium 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, our 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. i
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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 finally they 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 ice 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 tap roots and therefore can draw from those sources
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than usual. my food lay stretched down about 5 meters. me to waive is water even in these dry summit. this is over and done openly, 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 blazing, denied her face, figure out a body, look until the 19th sixty's newton was the protein crop in northern germany. there is the building, as we are invited to be, my wife, according to 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 offers 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 popcorn most fully furnished. edc, the original idea was to make an type of tofu. additional, sorry for her. i would like to enthusiastic because i thought it might go bad fairly quickly. does this flush to hi letesha registered and who would buy it? of course, what i was here this years ago told you 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 caffeine free coffee alternative. the pino, they're also planning to launch a new loop and product by the end of the here with
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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 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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in some sometimes giving people respect, explain more for for their no 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 car. 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, especially people i don't think is, is some thing impossible. i think we need to support people like that. the normal powell collect the harvests from the initiatives, small farmers, what he sees during his trips to other plantations worries him hormone to 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 touching to conventional cultivation to ramp up production. dear convention, that's the wrong way proxy on a mile coming up. what ails along with each benita ask the initiative,
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wants to show the farmers that there is a better way. it may not turn a quick profit, but it's sustainable. with laurie 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 breast found us looking more. let us empathy low, low, a rust fungus hits. sometimes the fruit doesn't ripen and we can't harvest that for one year. if the good harvest i know and the next year there is nothing. daniel. yeah. miramar for the full moon valley sun cultivation and climate change week in
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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 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 as thou, bower, formed on coffee, drawn and shade, is less susceptible to rusty hunger. step by step,
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the farmer should make the transition to shaded cultivation on one profess orthodontists young. together they draw up a plan that will help gloria ventura. increase her yield. give him diarrhea, had a bullet, gloria, 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 alive. ah gloria ventura is among the pay these small holders who have joined to the petrovitch a community they benefit from its sales system with my idea of body, tina, cuz i got to put a 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 a ross, we harvest enjoy the beans. and so directly they asked, i, yeah, i mean the effect and we make more profit as i yield the name of my benefit. the
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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 year old, $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
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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, but the cherry encasing it,
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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 to water. the facility manager shows carol whitmeyer, how the team processes the coffee cherries are useful. a liquid poses the coffee flour team, a or a transport the cherries to the trying area. a salad africa that they're the catch the fruit skins before they're fallen to the bucket under discarded 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 coffee, cherry 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 to it. those taste amazing various types of coffee grow on this organic plantation in 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 while almost 1500 or t as for be 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,
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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 stool yet and many is frequent. i mean it but how does it taste? here comes the moment of truth blue. 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 lot. i'm with chess, jason wilson shows off which dishes utilize the ingredient and his upscale restaurant
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. 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 growers 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 in their mouth. watch her is seen kids move the ation from godaddy from own agriculture. some of this in the end or less 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 handler. cannot see me 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 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. hello,
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you'll adam home beneficial. if we take our coffee to a mill, the fruits guns are discarded. battles in dublin, we picked 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 it. this is a great fertilizer which we use for vegetables. coffee but for all crops. but it got better. 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
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national companies with against the odds that eat the neatest 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 have no, but i found you. in the way, if i women, for example, to the u. s. i mean i would on dollars. of course, mandela carla same 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,
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close to noon. instead we produce what we consume and eat what we produce. that's the best. well, fair is summer, holiday jessica, on honestly 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 cannot said for sale a man who inspires others and shoes. when it comes to coffee, there is another way, ah ah! with
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