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> we can expect these crops becoming a real disaster very quickly. Can you elaborate why?
by the-mitr 3y ago
> we can expect these crops becoming a real disaster very quickly.
Can you elaborate why?
- afiori 3y agoMy guess would be that they expect massive and irresponsible conversion of wild areas into farmland.
- happytiger 3y agoIt’s complex. Demand is outstripping supply in something economists like to call The Coffee Paradox which actually has a book on the subject by the same name: https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Paradox-Markets-Commodity-Development/dp/1842774573#:~:text=They%20do%20so%20by%20analysing,and%20other%20'sustainable'%20coffees https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Paradox-Markets-Commodity-Deve.... More information on the short term and long term issues here: https://financialpost.com/financial-times/peak-coffee-global-thirst-grows-trouble-brewing https://financialpost.com/financial-times/peak-coffee-global... https://m.economictimes.com/small-biz/trade/exports/insights/coffee-prices-poised-to-climb-with-bean-shortfall-nearing-third-year/articleshow/97160098.cms https://m.economictimes.com/small-biz/trade/exports/insights... But the most pressing issues long term are best summarized by this article which if you read nothing else is probably the best answer to your question: https://econreview.berkeley.edu/a-world-without-coffee-the-story-behind-a-possible-impending-coffee-crisis/ https://econreview.berkeley.edu/a-world-without-coffee-the-s... To boot, coffee is a monoculture and deeply vulnerable like bananas.