The New York Times (Daily / USA)
Deforestation to produce coffee could lead to the failure of crops
Every day, we drink more than two billion cups of coffee worldwide, by some estimates, and demand keeps rising. To grow beans to quench this thirst, ever more forests have been felled globally for farming. But in an ecological and agricultural irony, the more forests are destroyed to grow coffee, the more the crop’s long-term prospects are jeopardized by changing rains, according to a new report by Coffee Watch, a non-profit industry watchdog.