Join the challenge – 13 to 15 May 2016 Climate change affects millions of coffee farmers who are among the hardest hit by extreme weather,droughts, floods and crop disease. Unpredictable weather patterns make it challenging for them to grow and harvest their crop, or as coffee plants are extremely sensitive to changes in temperature. In Latin America increased rainfall,humidity and higher temperatures bear allowed the leaf rust disease to spread rapidly, leaving farmers no choice but to chop down acres of coffee farms.
This means...
Source: fairtrade.net