Thursday, March 06, 2014

Climate Change-Linked Coffee Disease Destroys Crops, Jobs, and Wages in Central America

Everardo Barillas Gonzales, a coffee worker, collects coffee cherries in a plantation affected by a tree-killing fungus known as roya at Santa Rosa de Lima, to 50 km (31 miles) from Guatemala City, on Feb. 13, 2013. Central American farmers who produce some of the world's most sought-after coffee beans are grappling with the re-emergence of a tree-killing fungus spread by the wind called roya. (Credit: Reuters/Jorge Dan Lopez) Click to enlarge.
Coffee farmers in Central America are struggling to tackle the worst epidemic in nearly 40 years of coffee leaf rust, a climate change-linked disease that has slashed coffee production by hundreds of millions of dollars, cut wages and put coffee pickers out of work.

 Climate Change-Linked Coffee Disease Destroys Crops, Jobs, and Wages in Central America
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