Starbucks Expands Coffee Farm Investment, Adds Farms In Guatemala And Costa Rica – CoffeeTalk
Starbucks has invested in farms in Guatemala and Costa Rica to support global coffee agronomy and protect the future of coffee. The company’s first company-operated coffee farm, Hacienda Alsacia, will be used to research ways to increase coffee farm productivity, support profitability, and build climate resilience. Starbucks buys 3% of the world’s coffee, sourcing and roasting Arabica coffee beans. Rising temperatures, such as drought and coffee leaf rust disease, are impacting the availability, quality, and taste of coffee, as well as farm productivity, crop quality, and the livelihoods of coffee farmers. Starbucks has created best practices to make coffee more profitable, developed disease-resistant, quality coffee, and shared it with farmers globally. Since committing to distributing 100 million coffee trees by 2025, Starbucks has distributed approximately 90 million climate-resistant coffee trees and more than 53 million coffee seedlings to farmers. Additional coffee innovation farms will enable research in new geographies to better mitigate climate change threats. The farms in Costa Rica and Guatemala will study hybrid coffee varieties under different elevations and soil conditions.
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Source: Coffee Talk