Ethiopia could lose 40-60% of coffee areas due to climate change
Ethiopia, which has a unique collection of wild coffee varieties, is likely to lose 40-60% of its coffee growing regions by 2100 due to global warming, according to research in the journal Nature Plants.  However, the study also showed that if it was feasible to launch a massive programme of plantation relocation to cooler altitudes, coffee production could increase, at least until 2040 when areas available for relocation would be exhausted. In 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted a decline in areas suitable for coffee production by 2050. Last year, researchers predicted that such areas could ultimately decrease by 50%.
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