Somebody say 'peak coffee'? Oh god, it's real... | News.com.au
As the climate warms, the devastating "coffee rust" disease is invading the Colombian altitudes best suited to growing arabica, whilst increased heavy rains destroy the blossoms before they can give birth to the beans.
And the mountains are only so high, Stone writes.
Brazil, the world’s largest producer of coffee beans, is expected to yield a record crop of over 55 million bags of coffee in 2012.
...In early August, a frost occurred in Brazil’s southeastern coffee growing belt. While frost will have little effect on this year’s harvest, traders worried that next year’s yields could be hurt.
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