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Coffee farmers struggle to adjust to climate change

2013-01-28 06:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Seattle Times: One of the biggest problems facing coffee farmers in India and elsewhere is climate change. Fluctuations in the weather have always happened, but they come more frequently now and are often more extreme, farmers say. Like many tropical crops, coffee needs predictable dry and wet seasons and cannot tolerate extreme temperature fluctuations. "Climate change is hitting us hard,' said Jacob Mammen, managing director of India's Badra Estates. Three times in recent years, Badra has lost a third of...

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Zacks Upgrades Green Mountain Coffee Roasters to "Outperform"

2013-01-24 09:43:11| Beverages - Topix.net

The firm currently has a $49.00 target price on the stock. Zacks ' analyst wrote, "We are upgrading our recommendation on Green Mountain Coffee Roaster to Outperform from Neutral as we are encouraged by the company's efforts to wipe out competition following the expiry of its K-Cup patents.

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Central America battles to save coffee from fungus

2013-01-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Central America is scrambling to contain a coffee-eating fungus that has invaded a third of the impoverished region's crops, threatening to cost the vital industry hundreds of millions of dollars. Entire families depend on work from the coffee-growing industry in Central America, which employs more than 1.5 million people to produce one of the world's most renowned Arabica beans. But in September, two months before the annual harvest, the fungus known as roya began to spread due to a lack of...

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