Drinking coffee is a pleasurable experience for fans, but for coffee growers in Central America, it is an unendurable experience as climate change and disease are making it difficult to stay in business. Photo: Reuters
Adrian Hernandez says he can’t remember a year as dry as 2015, which has nearly cost him his farm and turned him from a climate change sceptic into a true believer.
Hernandez, who runs a coffee plantation in northern Costa Rica, says he is just barely scraping by after tripling the amount of fungicide he uses, paying high irrigation bills and still harvesting just a meagre crop from his desiccated plants.
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