Brazil coffee at risk from global warming - study - Reuters

[Eugene]

Brazil coffee at risk from global warming - study
05 Feb 2007 22:25:17 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Peter Blackburn

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Brazil, one of the world's largest agricultural
producers, risks a sharp cut in coffee and other major crops over the next 50 to
100 years due to global warming, researchers said on Monday.

A 3-degree Celsius (5.4 Fahrenheit) rise in temperature would result in a 60 percent
reduction in the arabica coffee area in Brazil, the world's biggest producer of the
beverage.

Brazil, the world's No. 2 soybean producer, would also plant some 40 percent less
soybeans and the corn area would decline by 10 to 15 percent.

"Coffee will migrate south to cooler areas and we would have coffee grown in
Argentina," Hilton Silveira Pinto, associate director of the Center for Meteorological
Studies and Applied Climatology, told Reuters.

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[Meshuga]

1. Starbucks prices are going to rise!

Be prepared!

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Maybe NOW global warming will be taken seriously . . . . n/t