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it honestly try to busy and working 32 hours a week has to be better for the assignments in the 40, but of course we shouldn't be. no, you'd be the living scientists just had subscribe. whatever you listen to pod costs, the coffee is among the most popular beverages in the world, but climate change is threatening its production. soon, growing coffee won't be economically viable. the price is a new way to adjust it to the work involved in growing coffee. we need a different approach against i'm not what i mean, how kind of livelihoods, of millions of coffee farmers be saved and with our cup of chino and a suppressed. so to the
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in equity was rain forest by the real napoli. this man is on a business trip but he's not, you're a stereo, typical business man, andrea cells and is concerned about people, not just the bottom line. it's important to him to get to know his coffee growers, dust and vague. so we are we team with one of our 2 partners here in the regents and the amazon little and see if is what we visit these courses regularly, twice a year. and that's, that's necessary to build trust and maintain the relationship with them. excuse me . as you can imagine, the people here have been taking advantage of like white people for the last 500 years. and because of that there was 0 trust at 1st the same expressed as my conference call next us diaz sales and got involved in the industry 30 years ago. we
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a handful of like minded people. they wanted to change the coffee world. they were happy to pay more for the beams, the low wages that were standard more in fact than the fair trade companies that already existed back then. their idea was to import directly from the producers cutting out the middleman, the, the, the, how much guides you, i just always get together with these colleagues in austin doors. the pioneer is visiting the coffee, cooperative vine, the cory green gold in the kitchen language. high ranking members of the indigenous community are there to welcome the 2 germans. 120 small holders have joined forces to explore new ways of doing business. the initiative was set up by a goose to send us a lift gate that i might, some of those intermediaries, each, the middle mandated profit, the motorcycle,
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that's why small produce it smaller accounts and banded together to be strong in the square and to be able to guarantee consistent quality that and he low any the level of look, see him like on the lumen. they are worried about a new b u regulation that only allows imports of products such as coffee that have not involved any deforestation since december 2020, the kitchen. i take no part in destructive practices like forest clearing, but how can they prove that a topic of discussion with their german partners the units in the past as well as like that because that doesn't trust you as producers of august before it's awesome . they used photos and yet the indigenous peoples guarantee a sustainable environmentally friendly cultivation. the you regulations are intended to stamp out practices that were common in recent decades. forests were frequently cleared to make way for coffee plant patients, some 100000 tech tears
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a year worldwide. that's because harvesting machines are more easily deployed in large fields, were nothing else grows except coffee. they replaced the work of hundreds of pictures, but mano cultures require an enormous amount of fertilizer. and that damages the environment. deforestation like, and brazil also releases huge amount of c o 2. in the hot sun, the coffee plants also cannot survive without irrigation. and that too, has an enormous impact on natural resources. one cup of coffee alone requires an average of some 130 liters of water. that's nearly a whole ton and 80 grams of harmful greenhouse gases, or emitted into the atmosphere per come. the equivalent of driving have a kilometer by car here by the rio napoli in northern ecuador,
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indigenous coffee growers work in a completely different way, including us government for an ok, the different that when you walk in here, already killed my older movie. i meant, as that is, 12 and a half pleasant doses. hoops of being presented, humidity's shame on the, on the defensive to buy when as the cultivation methods used by the indigenous cue to a community or hailed world wide as a shining example with agro forestry trees provide the coffee plants with shade, well preserving bio diversity. the alternative to big mano cultures. most of the simpler but how much we always work with the trees here. second order for itself, we call the system chalk, right? it's traditional arrow forestry. depending what i get into the trees, help the pine nutrients to the soil, which other plants absorber them while your products you, they produce more fruit that way. but also to, for us, it's important to have trees have one additional plants and other plans that we can
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eat. like the coffee plant tried, remember the shade of other trees, the air is cooler and the soil more moist. banana plants or cuts, how trees provide shade, for example, and an additional income stream. a certain combination of plants also makes for a more nutrient rich soil, which benefits the coffee plants. that way they need less fertilizer, little irrigation, and or less vulnerable to pass. plus a healthy forest stores a lot of c o 2 and preserves bio diversity. stuckey motor. it's like a cell phone, but there's a very t palm growing back there. i think it was almost here. we have full subtree, especially my that out of the but a full so wood can be used to construction and it's a furniture. it's good wood isn't the leg use which also right. you tree the remote
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plots the cheese back lamp, and think of them even with us, especially as us the community jointly owned some 40000 heck tears, one half a cultivate, the other half remains untouched. green forest, thanks to some 60 different crops they grow, the people here are largely self sufficient and for a goose to sell those out. it's a way of marrying the past with the future. so there's 2, let's say you are going to be forgetting this. how am i supposed to bring humans and children to harmony with one another? the same thing was for us, out of each entry has a life, a spirit, the lieutenant police, indigenous peoples of fault to ensure the right to nature. the quick window has become a plan here in nature conservation. 2, in 2008, ecuador became the 1st country in the world to recognize the rights of nature in its constitution. that meant, for example,
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halting plans to expand gold and copper mining. but nature conservation is most successful when people's livelihoods are secured. andrea felt as doing his part with his socially minded enterprise. the one cafe in the berlin district ashuelot board has something special to offer here. coffee sense, like so, fif lou then can live out there. caution and she's not the only one who wants to learn something from francis pod slash utah. does it have to be 50? now? to be exact? the coffee kind of sarah runs a co roasting space where he shares his roasting machines and know how with people new to the coffee business like sophie from live. and she's not just a coffee lover, but a researcher and an entrepreneur named
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mine, i phone and my research, i run a small coffee business as a whole, be really just to see what's out there. is there any demand? how does it taste? and to bubble, to raise awareness about policy and climate change. it's become very popular for people to roast their own. b is. but across the industry, many are concerned about how climate changes impacting coffee cultivation organ. i'm worried that there might be no coffee in one day saying that's why i'm passionate about supporting every project that comes to us. so costly that's produced sustainably and transparently gets so in germany, i've often thought you might come to the sofa loop and is experimenting with varieties of coffee that can cope with climatic extremes. one in uganda is showing potential to credit and they finally can only advise to thomas to produce it. when we know there's a market, we can't just tell them to switch to it isn't,
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no one will ultimately want it that's. that's why taste is so important. and considering how we can improve it, but most of the, remember the expect both coffee, that with stanz difficult climatic conditions and tastes good. that's recall, different varieties are tasted and compared at copying events. coffee had hundreds and hundreds of a roam is twice as many in fact, as winds. which coffee do you find most exciting? from the 1st smell, i'd probably the same number i chain. i don't even know. let's see. it must be, but the nozzle comes to me when you smell it. so there's a certain sweetness, including this in the background type, a barrier aroma to be more exact science of business. but ultimately, eclipse is the 1st impression when i got them into effect. didn't ask mind, okay, so what do you taste 1st and ask me,
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publish makes that sound. yeah. it's not the same, right? yeah. some lesser known types of coffee beans could have what it takes with a little bit more experimentation. some of them could really sell the sofa, live and works as an agricultural economist at the puts stump institute for climate impact research in germany. she examines how climate change is putting the livelihoods of millions of farmers and their families at risk and coffee growing regions. coffee plays a big role in her life, happens to be guns, coffee is a part of my life in many different ways. i might as the big coffee law, my friends, an awful lot of it's coffee plus i research coffee because this practically no other plan. so clearly tells the story of the inside of climate change on agriculture and the global sound. do not have something provides, you can demonstrate why we need to adapt. i will culture in these regions,
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hustling and we o somehow have an emotional relationship to coffee. and when we hear that our favorite drink is running low, then we will listen ok. thank not put them down and get out of him. which coffee plans are best suited to withstand climate change? the agricultural economist is trying to find an answer to this question with david, be got a and so feel by 2 shots in uganda in east africa. but here we have a definite difference in the elevation. yeah. and the altitude that we're looking at. so even though the close, the over the logical zone is probably not comparable. yeah, as we can see here on the map. so this is the climate change will negatively impact coffee production in uganda on task. so the approach is need to adapt to coordinate system of, of what we're now looking at to now researches with a little bit type of coffee that also comes from uganda and is increasingly being cultivated by farmers. that would be an option for adapting to climate change on
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a large scale. and uganda. the problem is that the 2 most common types of coffee a robbie kinda and robust us only grow in the so called coffee belt. they need a stable tropical climate to grow by 2050 climate change threatens to make half of those regions unsuitable for cultivation. this is not going to as the fix to and fulfilled gene cards. but also on the, it was, his team was the hard because some, because of the increasing demand for coffee versus the c w 2 doses that are predicted in the future, people might be forced to step groans, go see, not including the for, i do areas for example, predicted areas would like predicted areas and forests, which is not equal each kind of good to avoid that from happening. how can
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existing plantations be saved? america re discovered wild coffee variety could be part of the answer. it appears to be more resilient to drowned and pest infestation, but this is no quick fix noise coffee. introducing a new types of coffee to the global market is definitely a long term project team. we talked about the systemic chain, which we didn't name on time because it's not a home because the coffee plant is a tree of defense high. so it takes a little while to get from a planting to the 1st time alcohol to establishing on the will market. if it happens, you will often bake knocked under comment us to make headway with the project. in uganda, the researchers are gathering knowledge on the ground, the in south america. ecuador is also part of the tropical coffee belt,
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tempered based in puerto andreas fellows and regularly visits his business partners . this coffee cooperative recently invested in these drying beds. the same with the wash, the coffee twice. and that seems to see what it means. let's say fast on the hope is new and it's wonderful. cemented with the pulse deal of time. the coffee becomes smaller truck. oh, i see the come on. so what i have to say is it shouldn't be too close to the end of the see the buyers are prepared to pay more for high quality coffee. when it caters to different taste. the collaboration between the pair has more than doubled. the income of the coffee farmers here is a can eventually there's a ventilator having over the year can get in and circulate quite well. that's of these next. beneath the coffee are made of plastic coffee dry, slowly, evenly here. so this is, this is the most modern system we can imagine having con,
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it doesn't run on that would cause it to your gas off. it's nice and slow on this slow drying process. it means that the coffee normally arrives that are plants and very good quality, so that it also retains its quality for longer or in contrast to other producers. the coffee cooperative doesn't have to show that the risks of such investments alone fails and pays in advance. 6 months before the harvest, this was a good year. you'll receive over 14 tons or $210.00 sucks. so those say we already have 12243646 when we moved, and another $4050.00 or drying fee is that which $1.00? i'm from confident i fell in love with this type of coffee cultivation and structure from the very startling is completely in line with my ideals of democracy and sustainability. the quite a. it's a great joy for me to try to act as a most piece for them. as a facilitator for their ideas, and with the help of the coffee they grow to compete them in germany for we're bringing the coffee and forbidding coffee in germany is the 2nd largest coffee
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importer in the world fills in the shipment is destined for hamburg. the port city profited from colonialism and remains an important trading hub for coffee beans today. fells a name to his coffee roasting company after don quixote. the knight who fought windmills this types not to be as traditionally on an ascii, colonial product or with every negative connotation imaginable is their child labor exploitation which on other prices, but in no way do justice to the work involved in growing complicated ones, we need a different approach image, but it was an against another. i mean typically just 10 percent of the profit stays in the country where the coffee was grown. the rest is swallowed up by transport, wholesalers, and production companies. naturally, especially global market prices fluctuate greatly. the minimum price fair trade sets per pound of washed erotica, coffee beans is $1.80. according to fair trade,
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the price would have to be significantly higher to actually secure people's livelihoods improved. for example, it would have to be $2.50 per pound. andrea sales and pays about $3.50 and his business is still doing well. there isn't a drum to start r o creatures growing on average by 10 tons a year. a med rising demand don't use them, but the man always being much bigger than our production capacity, enough process. thinkable that will ever be able to meet the demand. don't come with our direct read and are transparent policies i'm talking to show this is not some of the idea was thing that i didn't dream is the transplants of them. it was so it was important for us consumption. commercially needs to be economically successful to continue and just to support connect design in uganda. sophie fund live and is on the road with tony will go. yeah, the head of a coffee farmers alliance to find out more about the repair. it could be the one thing that i would like to catch somebody again who is
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actually 70 percent of the firm a set. that's one of the reasons they're growing love. erica is because of the higher you. yes. there's a difference between you and the 4th to insure and tony will go. yeah, comes from a coffee, growing family himself. he built up the you going to a coffee farmers alliance today he's, it's director. he's showing the agricultural economist around and answering her questions. and i think one thing i'm also really interested now about understand a little bit more about the 2 types of that. erica, maybe it's true, but actually show us as a 3. so you're welcome to that. you all might as well. and because this one is already there, are trying to dry his fluffy on the top. all it was is recommended there visiting davis cruz over a coffee farmer with a lot of experience. busy which fulfills this one year drive,
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which type of the over the past years he's been experimenting with growing the unusual coffee plant that the german researcher is so passionate about. uh huh. okay. do this now. we also know about the cookies around cheese that are really very promising in terms of resistance to trash or how they times lack of a bit about that, just not yet being actively cultivated, commercially. and the better because we can see he is old, great, and being cultivated, and therefore it's a relatively promising and easy a avenue to introduce this new type of hosting to the global market. and guess in widely distribution and invest marked as a few on, on off button. yes. so can you please one reason the alternatives are so sought after can be seen right here. the popular robust is increasingly being attacked by past due to big changes in the climate thing bought out on this side this and
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although busta ok, so one of the say those thing for a is you see a collaboration on one side of the young still the barracka is already being blended with other types of coffee and sales are increasing for the farmer. this means he can continue to pay the school fees for his 8 children with the other on the style, pests, and diseases most a thank you. i've seen a profile of money today that was stamped, i was prone david. anything but you see now the, the, the broker trick brought up being so who is this? why not list the spit icons stuff like, but it was those when we visited mike outputs for our lives as what happens? like if the benefit of this one. so he funded and and her team want to document and substantiate the farmer's experiences in a project that will run over several years. are there comparing 800 farms that grow
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different types of coffee plants in terms of however, there are good reasons why the resilience leave. erica has not yet prevailed. you know, so it's very scary using is actually read a feature. what would the person go over to follow the cream them to decides here, like that you've got a standing down on the set top district which would be good, lucky in for adoption, the other one from use as much more to this one now. so if i'm older, if i'm getting going was yes, i submit a claim. what did i get done? having this production before? they suspect that it's precisely this big, long trunk that protects america from drought and heat guard. the slicks very dangerous harvesting in the tree tops is quite the challenge. i help people now if i wonder those are the other sites. i also come here. so i title this one. you know? so for each yes close to me. they could this and i type the
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you going to coffee farmers alliance wants to organize financial support for the american farmers to compensate for the strenuous harvest. we'll go. yeah. is campaigning for this because he sees the wild coffee planned as a glimmer of hope for the whole country. so coffee is the brand as leading agricultural exports, commodity. and we think that the bank of coffee gives us an opportunity to continue exporting coffee in the long term and also to provide a variety of coffees to the are because robust as a nobody cards supporting courageous farmers like davis, cordova is just the beginning for the uganda, coffee farmers, the lions the next day tony mongolia invites the german researcher to a new factory. the machine cleans the coffee to prepare it for export. so we have, uh, we have a small distort on here, which most any phones,
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if the best one escaped? yes, yeah, and then uh, we also have my mazda mentioned below there. they're investing in the processing of coffee beans so that more money stays in the country. legally, as a lions brings tangible benefits to its members, such as more favorable conditions for bank loans. so, so good for farmers because they are able to benefit from the additional value that you get through meaningful grading through exports. every stage has an increase in price that goes back to the firm. so this is a fairly decent opportunity for from us. what on the structure that they're testing, whether the barracka beans can be processed in the same way, is more common varieties. if so, they wouldn't have to invest in new machines and even, or that could be brought to market more quickly. does this variety offer hope for the future of coffee a see to go out as well. the zip labelle coffee can be processed using the same
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machines as a robust of coffee and also school. and that's good then because it, the firm is grow the coffee to the highest standard and then it's process to, to the highest standard. yeah. then there's a good chance that the end product will be high quality coffee. sit tight, so it's good to be actual calls come down. schmidt and donovan shaw says they will and you gone to the future of coffee has already begun with a research. the agricultural economist from pottstown wants to help ensure the success of lead barracka them. and i'm coming to plant a coffee tree. you want to get this to have a stock for about 3 to 5 years. and capital coffee tree is harvested for an average and says using are also nathan loan. good. that means that the coffee that we plant today is the coffee will be drinking in 2050, perhaps beyond that. and that's the time when we already have very frightening climate predictions. that's why it's so important to react. now,
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the people here want to keep their jobs, the country, it's exports, and coffee send their couple of chino, the sustainable coffee from the ecuadorian cooperative has arrived in germany. in puerto, andrea spells in is delivering it personally from ecuador. fantastic. let's put it down here. to fairness is a central tenet of this small rose tree in new york, also guaranteed by address thousands direct invoice. the oven near collection is committed to practicing what he preaches. everyone earns the same and is involved in managing the business. the. the roasting process produces the desired aroma. what can you know
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exactly the smell we're after? so in the early stage of each him dark express. so i smell count on the lines not as confused by cl rooms. normalize ation increases the coffee smells less than less sweeten preteen a more picture multi i'm like, i don't know the coffee and the reality of how it's produced. can leave the bitter aftertaste. almost half of all small holder coffee farmers live in poverty itself over in 5. i really hope that something will fundamentally change in the cost of the market. um yeah, because there are still very few direct coffee importers like you whole thing. for example, i'll skip this far to see you a really good fit. sylvania i'm andrea spells and has already health. it doesn't mean groceries get off the ground with his company k, hold to coffee. the pioneer is more than happy to share his expertise based to share some important for me to have an approach to copy that allows me to look at
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myself in the mirror and then i can do that and i've worked in this industry for 13 years on health on finally call her to my work every day to make this possible in the future. we need to work in a very idealistic way and replace the idea. this is all about the industry is changing. resilience, coffee varieties sustainable cultivation and fair trade conditions. that's what will help safeguard the future of coffee. the respects its own about a walk in waves and texting nature. that's right, sandra,
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