Coffee: The future of coffee growing and production | DW Documentary

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Coffee: The future of coffee growing and production | DW Documentary


Coffee production is no longer what it was thanks to innovative growers and brave farmers. Coffee can now be grown using methods that promote biodiversity in fields, plantations and forests, while also ensuring that farmers earn more.

David Benitez is one of these coffee pioneers. The young agroecologist from Honduras studied the holistic…

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  1. Only advanced country worries and scuence do something about water…. our source of life practically….
    To find solutions for humanity….

    Developing country dont give a shit about their water….😅

    Well at least i see some.. lots of people life getting better. ..

    Very sure sustainable farming will actually make us more pruductive…

    As malthusian hv been disproved again and again….😊

  2. As someone who comes from a coffee growing country… the pay that farmers get is not commensurate to the work they put in for the west to enjoy coffee..

  3. So the american supposedly helps the coffe growers , pays them 2.30 a pound , but single origin shade grown organic coffee can easily sell for 20 dollars a pound in the US

  4. I too own a small coffee farm here in india, Karnataka. And we only grow shade grown coffee, there is no concept of conventional coffee farming here…

  5. Coffee is exclusively a tropical crop, the most traded commodity in the world next to oil, as you have stated, and a necessity in the extreme cold and frigid countries of the world where it is consumed the most I may add. But it is not the growing countries that reap the most profits from exporting the raw coffee beans they produce in abundance. Rather, it is the companies that add value to the commodity that do. It has been estimated that a 60kg (120lb) bag of raw coffee beans they export when roasted and marketed to the consumer, fetches 4 times more in profit for the manufacturer than for the raw coffee bean farmer. It is quite obvious that in order for the top coffee growing countries like mine to get the full benefit from the coffee business, we must become the growers, manufacturers and marketers of the commodity themselves. It would involve dealing with the consumers directly by giving them what they want at an unbeatable price, thus competing directly with the manufacturers. Innovation can be costly, but the results could be astonishing.

  6. I am not buying the documentary message , coffee production is at all time high and the price is the same as 20 years ago .. there is no problem in current coffee production , every one is happy .

  7. It's sad to know that they want to grow something in a country where it's not indigenous to. Coffee is meant to be grown in the Southern parts of the world, where they have a suitable climate for good quality beans. They can leave this field to grow indigenous crop to Germany that cannot be grown in Brazil and trade with it.