Costa Rican coffee farmers were once blessed with abundant rains but as precipitation grows fickle they are being forced to innovate to keep producing one of the world's favourite brews.
Jesus Valverde, who owns a family plantation in the town of Naranjo, is trying to adapt by planting fruit trees that provide shade and maintain humidity around his coffee plants.In addition, the dry leaves that fall from the trees fertilise the soil and reduce heat, a kind of"biological technology" that maintains the humidity of the soil.The Inter-American Development Bank estimates that rising temperatures could wipe out half of the world's coffee crops by 2050.
The Coffee Institute of Costa Rica is working on developing coffee plant hybrids that are more resistant. In the past, farmers like Johel Alvarado needed to do little more than plant and wait for the country's once-consistent rains."Each year it gets a bit harder to produce the same amount", but"by innovating, we see that climate change does not affect us as much", the 52-year-old farmer said.
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