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5 days agoWeekly Coffee News: Questioning Coffee's Future + New Look for CQI
NPR: What Lies in Coffee's Future? An NPR story this week explored the mounting challenges facing coffee growers, including rising temperatures, shrinking arable land, droughts driven by climate change, financial pressures, generational labor shortages, international market volatility and over-reliance on arabica production. "Most immediately, the Trump administration's tariffs, which threaten their sales, add to the ongoing challenges of pests and diseases for coffee production," the piece states. "In the longer term, experts say the coffee industry can't continue with business as usual."