I grow my own Coffee Arabica here in Zimbabwe - its all naturally grown without any fertilizer, only compost & manure. I get around 2kg of roasted coffee beans per plant per year & I have about 20 trees. More than enough for my neighbors & I!
@@alphared4655 It’s like boasting about having a generator that can power your own home, but no one else. That amount would need to be replicated dozens of times to supply enough for local towns.
@@ShaneyElderberrymaybe he has a point. Maybe we should have less of importing and shipping crops all over the place and grow and eat more foods that are actually local and seasonal to us.
It’s not just coffee, the problem is with monoculture of any plants on land. The way we mass produce any product is bad for the environment period, unless big food corps can admit to this there is nothing anyone can do to make a difference.
Thank you DW for another great documentary ! I really enjoy and learn so much from you. I'm from Brazil, and to be honest, nowadays it's rare for me to watch TV from my own country. The content available for free on RU-vid and specially in your channel is much more interesting. I hope i can watch your channel for years to come! Obrigado ! ☑☑☑
Thank you DW , I too love your work we appreciate, Im from uganda I watch all your documentaries every time u post. My request is please come to UGANDA too, and get to know our tasty coffee and if possible we German consumers. To buy from mi direct.
Purchased a coffee farm in Colombia post covid as farmers there were desperate to sell as years of low coffee prices had devastated their livelihood. They in turn turned to cheap chemical fertilizers to meet their expenses which in turn scorched the soil with years to get back to normal soil PH level. Many small farm owner’s children are heading to cities as they can’t make enough to even meet costs. Only those staying behind are large farm owners and those who can use the existing coffee farms as a private resort ( which is what I am doing). I have even uprooted a quarter of coffee plants on degraded soil and planted native trees so we can at least increase biodiversity. Coffee as a business is terrible and only suitable for those who have secondary source of income. Oh yes, the evil firm lurking behind to ensure farmers stay poor….Nespresso Aka Nestle. Their sustainable practices and rain forest certification are a joke for the price they pay these gullible farmers.
It was a wonderful ,interesting, and intellectual documentary about coffee ❤☕️ ❤️ .documentary introduced climate change and climate changes massive effectiveness on coffee plantation in Uganda 🇺🇬. While Ecuador 🇪🇨 through the preservation of farms' health through diversity of trees 🌳 plantation in one farm as framers ancestors did ....before Gaint companies around the world 🌎 exploiting large area of farms for one agriculture product ( rejected diversity which destroyed the health of farms 🚜 besides deforestation of forests....it was a great documentary..thanks
I grow coffee in Brasil and have none of these issues mentioned here. I also cross pollinate species to get stronger, more disease resistant strains of Coffee while protecting the flavours we love.
Please, more brazilians should comment here to avoid mistakes about our industry here. They were totally biased showing farmers burning to depreciate our prices in the stock market.
Coffee is one of my favourite things in life, but I agree it does have too high carbon footprint. Recently I've been trying to substitute it partially with chicory coffee and yerba mate. Thanks for the interesting video. Perhaps you could make an entire documentary about intercropping? In hotter areas of the world it's very popular, but nearly unknown in Europe. There's been some amazing long-term research on intercropping published in the recent years. Stuff worth sharing
this documentary is distorted as it is not distinguishing between commercial and specialty coffee which are different markets! The new york commodities exchange determines the global price of commercial coffee which is based on exploitation of producers.... In central america farmers are abandoning coffee as the cost of picking coffee is higher than the gains...
I very much like coffee. Drink it every morning brewed at home. Twice I’ve gone a year without it. But I’m ready to start drinking many different kinds of herbal teas instead. Coffee for me can be an occasional treat from 2024 and on ….
Lots of warm fuzzy feelings here, but ideally some knowledge of coffee, South America, economics, and some common sense should have been used in the production of this sentimentary.
As a consumer, coffee in specific, and caffeine in general, it comes down to pricing. Want to curb consumption? Raise prices. Unless I'm affected financially, I don't really give a rat-a**. Fast food, plastic, cigarette.
I think the point of it being in subtropical areas is to make it easier. The water requirements for the plants are easier to control, the humidity is naturally there, and the acidic soil the plants need is there. If the plants are grown in other environments, the process becomes more expensive in resources like water, soil correction, and energy (greenhouses).
You did a mistake about information from Brazil, you are totally wrong about Coffee production and climate situation here. You just got a frame of recently situation about burned farmers to blur our agricultural responsability here.
Fair price = price control, is it not ? 20:35 What kinda BS is that, British colonies had to change coffee types in different regions for this very reason - pests, over a 150 years ago and everyone was riding around on horseback !
Better coffee agriculture practices are needed for sure. However I think many in the industry overemphasize taste, like these people. Kind of like with alcohol, the majority of people drink coffee for the caffeine hit. For that, the price cannot get too high. (like most people aren't buying expensive whisky's but a cheaper pilsner)I think the majority of people are okay with a lesser tasting coffee as long as it still okay and a bit cheaper. This is why emphasizing on taste won't save coffee in my opinion. Mostly the minority that are really into coffee will enjoy that.
Although you are correct, it’s also the case that close to 100% of the people who seek specialty coffees from unique roasters are interested in the taste of the coffee. The roasters in the video certainly have patrons who care, and are willing to make regular orders if the flavors appeal to them. Even funky and odd flavors find their patrons.
@@ShaneyElderberry Oh for sure they know how to target their audience. And I think those smaller roasters have a customer base that values sustainability. But we really need to know how the larger industry as a whole is moving to a more sustainable future. That is where the real impact can be made. I think a lot of videos/docs like these are conflating the two.
@DW Documentary, guys who is editing and approving these videos? 4:24, the BGM is wayyy to loud, doesn't fit the topic and interferes with the VO. Hire me as your post production supervisor.
Calm down, people. The world is going to be unsuitble to human life soon enough, so we don't need to worry about coffee disapearing. We're leaving first.😂😂
Love all the coffee growers especially from Africa and Indonesia. Enjoy ur coffe while u can. Then here comes the sad news for starbuck coffee. Stop ur exploitation. What a sad news for STABUCK and JIM CRAMER of NBC. Both are loosers.
Most of the elite chai-macha tea sipping far left environmentalist activists hate coffee to begin with , so this news is music to their ears!, maybe they’ll push for ground up cricket coffee alternatives for us common folk!
