Coffee
Contesting legitimacy in global environmental governance – An exploration of transboundary climate risk management in the Brazilian-German coffee supply-chain
Explore the ways in which transboundary climate risks are being governed across a Brazilian-German coffee supply chain in this journal paper. Learn about the five distinct governance pathways identified, which are each underpinned by a distinct operationalization of legitimacy.
Co-designing climate services to integrate traditional ecological knowledge: a case study from Bali, Indonesia
This report discusses efforts to help Indigenous People adapt to climate change by combining their traditional ecological knowledge with scientific and technological sources of information about agriculture and climate change.
Enhancing economic benefits and resilience through pyrolysis based coffee drying
Pyrolysis technolgy offers significant economic beneftis to farmers and processors by providing energy that can be used for drying, and biochar, a natural fertilizer and soil enhancer.
Enabling opportunities to diversify farmers’ livelihoods: Blending adaptation and mitigation practice
This blog explores the potential for farmers to use biogas not only for coffee roasting, but also for expanding other small businesses, thereby increasing their adaptive capacity.
The Indirect Effects of Adaptation: Pathways for Vulnerability Redistribution in the Colombian Coffee Sector
This paper examines the possibility that measures taken to bolster livelihoods and adapt to climate change in one place could increase vulnerability elsewhere.
Mainstreaming climate information into sector development plans: the case of Rwanda’s tea and coffee sectors
This report demonstrates the use of climate information in assessing adaptation needs and adaptation interventions. It also outlines changes in thinking as adaptation moves from theory to practice.
Analysis of climate change impacts on coffee, cocoa, and basic grains value chains in Northern Honduras
Summary In 2011, the Government of Honduras asked IFAD (www.ifad.org) to prepare a project proposal aimed at increasing the climate...
Planning and costing agriculture’s adaptation in Rwanda: Small-holder cash-cropping (coffee)
Summary of country findings: Rwanda This study is one of 5 country studies (Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal, Rwanda and Tanzania) exploring...
Coffee farming on the slopes of Mount Elgon: Increasing resilience to climate change, Eastern Uganda
Gumutindo Coffee Cooperative is an organisation of smallholder coffee farmers who produce washed Arabica for the speciality coffee market and...
Costing and Planning Agriculture’s Adaptation to Climate Change: Small-holder Coffee Cash Cropping in Rwanda
The ability of the Rwandan coffee sector to compete in the global market by producing the highest quality of coffee...