Millions of people around the world depend on coffee daily. While Scandinavian countries lead the way in annual consumption (as high as 12kg per person in Finland), nearly all coffee has its agricultural roots in the Southern Hemisphere. Brazil, Vietnam, and Colombia are the top global coffee producers, while Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya shine as coffee powerhouses in Africa. Coffee
El pasado 4 de julio de 2023 la Organización Meteorológica Mundial – OMM, organismo técnico de las Naciones Unidas y autoridad en la materia, anunció que las condiciones están dadas para el fenómeno del Niño [1]. Ha habido expectativa por la llegada de El Niño, ocupando los principales titulares de las noticias y generando a su alrededor una sensación de
What are enset root mealybugs? Enset root mealybugs are an important pest affecting the cultivation of the enset crop. Enset is only cultivated on smallholder farms in the Ethiopian highlands, where it is a staple starch food for ~20 million people. The enset plant looks similar to a banana plant, but is not grown for its fruits. Rather, the plant
Climate change variability increases the vulnerability of small-scale farmers and reduces the effectiveness of risk management in agriculture. Providing farmers with timely and accurate climate information can allow them to make better decisions in agricultural planning, thus increasing farm productivity and adaptability, and enhancing climate change mitigation. However, effective delivery of climate information services in Kenya and other developing countries
In 2019, a wind of uncertainty was rustling through the thick green leaves of cacao trees from Venezuela to Peru. After 4 years, the European Union had implemented limits on cadmium—a toxic heavy-metal— in chocolate and cacao. Although the limits are set in the final product, preliminary data suggested that chocolate produced from Latin American beans was higher in
Every year, since 1901, the Agricultural Society of Kenya (ASK) has organized agricultural shows in different towns in Kenya to expose stakeholders to emerging innovations, technologies and knowledge and business opportunities around agriculture and trade. The shows draw in diverse exhibitors among them the public, private sector, and other agricultural development partners, who showcase technologies and innovations around new crop
The climate is changing, with many negative effects, particularly making smallholder women and men farmers and their livelihoods vulnerable (Awiti, 2022; McOmber, 2020; William et al., 2018). While new farming and food systems technologies have been developed and continuously promoted to support climate change adaptation, women farmers and marginalised socio-economic groups have limited access to those owing to a variety
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT has worked together with FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, and global green coffee supplier Mercon Coffee Group to develop a new tool to assess environmental and social risks. The tool aims to diagnose risks in supply chains to support the design of mitigation actions that companies can implement to minimize negative environmental