Sentences with phrase «coffee crops in»

Climate change is threatening coffee crops in virtually every major coffee producing region of the world.

A fungus is spreading across coffee crops in South America, a debilitating virus is sweeping across the U.S. hog population, and geopolitical tensions in Russia and Ukraine are giving wheat prices a boost.

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It has badly affected this season's crop, prompting the Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) in January to start uprooting some 300,000 hectares of infected trees.

The country also needs to invest in science that helps predict future temperature and rainfall conditions, so farmers can adopt new cropping practices to ensure yield and quality of coffee beans and other products.

Later in the year, when rain returned to Brazil and coffee prices started to fall, some producers who had gotten used to higher prices, held back their crop, hoping to sell later.

Because coffee is a crop, it is subject to weather disruptions such as drought (coffee is a very thirsty crop) and monsoons / typhoons in Southeast Asia.

If the Landsat Satellite picks up a different color in its pictures of the coffee plantations of Columbia, the banks «s specialists may determine that this indicates a blight on the leaves which will result in serious crop failure.

And when we were quiet, the in - between moments, the Holy Spirit breathing truth, all of us remembering the desert, smelling of earth and coffee and breakfast, and the crop of new babies cried, and a kid laughed with his dad, and we all exhaled, before our preacher tossed his notes away behind the podium, and opened up his Bible.

The center, in addition to habanero research, investigates and improves the cultivation of other crops as well, including coconuts, coffee, bananas, and...

The Ola'a Sugar Company, founded in 1899, uprooted coffee fields and cleared «ohi'a forests to make way for the new crop.

To guard against the economic catastrophe of a failed coffee crop, many growers now mix in other cash crops such as yucca and tomatoes, alongside their coffee plants or experiment with growing hybrid coffee plants that are better adapted to climate extremes or are better able to resist pests.

In the indigenous Chatino region, these farmers, about half of them women, rely heavily on their coffee crop for their income.

A recent article in the trade journal Global Coffee Review reports that the 2012 - 13 crop year could be upwards of 60,000 tons, and that the projection for 2019 - 20 is as much as 200,000 tons.

The 2007 crop is being harvested, and there will be a «Pride of PNG» competition in October, so we will do further reviews when new coffees arrive at roasters.

Last year in my post The (de) evolution of Rainforest Alliance shade criteria, I outlined the incremental relaxation of the criteria for shade over agroforestry crops — what the public understands to signify «shade - grown coffee.»

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In the agriculture section you can find quite a few coffee farmers in Latin America, most of which are looking for loans to buy fertilizer, and / or pay for labor to help weed or harvest their cropIn the agriculture section you can find quite a few coffee farmers in Latin America, most of which are looking for loans to buy fertilizer, and / or pay for labor to help weed or harvest their cropin Latin America, most of which are looking for loans to buy fertilizer, and / or pay for labor to help weed or harvest their crops.

They purchased all of Gaia's current crop, and it will appear in the Wood Thrush variety, and Selva Negra's coffee will be in the Chestnut - sided Warbler variety.

«But Ethiopian coffee farmers only earn between 30 and 59 pence for their crop, barely enough to cover the cost of production,» Maskela said in a statement.

Rainforest Alliance certified its first coffee farm in 1995, and now certifies over 5 % of global coffee production, in addition to dozens of other crops and products.

For instance, 40 % shade canopy coverage was previously recommended for coffee in much of Central America, but these recommendations are changing in some places as coffee rust decimates coffee crops.

I understand that shade over the crop is not always appropriate — in which case I believe a good alternative would be a mitigation requirement for a contiguous forested patch or ecologically equivalent habitat of the same size as the coffee crop elsewhere on the farm.

The criterion will apply to all crops of SAN's certification portfolio, not only to coffee, cocoa or other crops not tolerant to shade and therefore will increase SAN's positive impact on the more than 1.1 million certified farms in 42 countries.

Unshaded coffee plants grown with fertilizer yield the most coffee, although unfertilized shaded crops generally yield more than unfertilized unshaded crops: the response to fertilizer is much greater in full sun.

Unlike arabica coffee, which can (and is, in much of Mexico) grown as an agroforestry crop under mixed shade, robusta is grown in the sun and will require the clearing of valuable lowland forests, no doubt substantial amounts of fertilizer and pesticides, and cause collateral environmental damage.

in order to have more specific coffee requirements, SAN had individual countries put together «interpretation guidelines» [now gone from the website] that are used for specific crops.

Unshaded coffee tree grown with fertilizer yield the most Kona, although unfertilized shaded crops generally yield more than unfertilized unshaded crops: the response to fertilizer is much greater in full sun.

In the past, coffee research was primarily focused on crop yields and disease resistance with little consideration for quality.

Leading professional exporters and processors in the global coffee supply chain, from crop to cup of Vietnamese Robusta and Arabica.

At this rate, coffee will continue to grow in influence and importance as a crop in the years to come.

Roasted in Hawaii Lion's Guatemala Antigua Coffee is a roast with exceptional, hand - selected, cream of the crop Guatemalan coffee Coffee is a roast with exceptional, hand - selected, cream of the crop Guatemalan coffee coffee beans.

Crops like coffee and bananas could become rare delicacies in the future without bold climate action — but the livelihoods and well - being of farming communities are in jeopardy now.

To ensure the best standards «from crop to cup» we believe being professionally recognized by our peers plays a mission critical role in the quality of our coffee.

The FFS has now become a model approach for farmer education in Asia and many parts of Africa and Latin America, and has since been used with a wide range of crops including cotton, tea, coffee, cocoa, pepper, vegetables, small grains and legumes.

The land in these areas is in transition; it is in the process of being restored with agro-forestry systems using coffee as the principal crop.

This industrialisation, he indicated, would go hand - in - hand with improving the productivity of agriculture, spurred on by the production and marketing of additional cash crops such as cotton, coffee, oil palm, cashew and maize, which will boost export earnings for the country.

Wild replacements for pineapples, pomegranates, olives, coffee, and other crops lie in biodiversity - rich areas that must be saved.

A severe drought has ravaged crops in Central America and as many as 2.81 million people are struggling to feed themselves, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday, though the region's coffee crop has been largely unscathed.

He and his colleagues have previously found that birds help to protect the famous Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee crop from the borer beetle, and he is happy to see that Jamaican birds are not alone in their taste for the pest.

The government claims that the country is self - sufficient in most major food crops, and it is a leading exporter of many, including coffee, oranges, sugar cane, bananas and soya beans.

Of most concern in crops such as coffee beans are the mycotoxins ochratoxin A (OTA) and aflatoxin B1.

I've been making a big effort to choose organic coffee beans at least 90 - 95 % of the time, since apparently coffee is one of the worst crops in terms of pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides.

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It's the simple things in life: a pair of boyfriend jeans, a good cup of coffee and my computer's cropping tool that allows me to hide my messy apartment from the interwebs.

This weekend I've just been chilling at home, after a busy week my body and brain just needed to recharge, hence I didn't feel inspired to get dressed at all, like on Saturday when I ran out to meet my friend David for a coffee, though I was tempted to leave the house in pyjamas and slippers I grabbed for my old cropped denims and favorite oversized knit, yes, we all have those days don't we?

The always - brilliant Isabelle Huppert is the matriarch of a white family about to be kicked off their African plantation, trying desperately to hold onto the crop of coffee beans they've grown as their lives hang in danger.

Huppert plays a French plantation owner in West Africa determined to harvest the coffee crop while life as she knows it is going up in the flames of a conflict in which the contending armies (government, rebels) are nearly indistinguishable.

While speaking to people living in rural areas, she discovered that the government had induced farmers to switch from growing crops for themselves to producing cash crops, such as coffee and tea, for exporting.

The very limited area in which Kona Coffee is grown on the Island of Hawai'i ensures this crop will not be taken over by industrial agricultural interests.

Mahalo and many thanks to all the organizations and people who participated in the Kona Coffee Council's 2013 Cream of the Crop Event.