City of Oldsmar, Florida Sustainable Coffee, 19 Sep 2017

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From YouTube: The Path to Agricultural Sustainability Starts with Coffee

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Right now, the future of coffee is uncertain. Rising temperatures, drought and changing weather patterns caused by climate change are making many key coffee-growing areas less suitable for coffee production. The only way we can ensure its future is by growing the world’s coffee in a sustainable way — protecting our forests and our farmers.

The Sustainable Coffee Challenge convenes, unites and urges the coffee sector and conservation partners across the industry to spur the actions and investments necessary to make coffee the first sustainable agriculture product in the world.

The Challenge is committed to stimulating demand for sustainable coffee across the value chain, from the policymaking level to the final consumer. By encouraging demand for sustainable coffee, it leads to investments that enable the transition to a sustainable production and ensuring the coffee we drink is a sustainable product.

#SustainCoffee

http://www.conservation.org/stories/sustainable-coffee-challenge/Pages/overview.aspx

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This is the coffee you have every morning. You can't exist without it. It might be made by your loving partner, your own uncaf innate attends or Lorenzo. The hipster barista, who does the good latte are, but because coffee production is close to hitting a crisis point where the impacts of climate change become irreversible. You may have one person to thank for every cup of coffee you drink Oh, starting around 2030 nope. Definitely not those folks. Her name is Bambi. My.

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Name is Bambi Samrat and I work to make coffee sustainable. We.

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Drink 600 billion cups of coffee every year, but coffee producers are facing a massive threat. Climate.

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Plants are already a difficult plant to run, they need very specific conditions and rising temperatures. Droughts, Frost's and changing weather patterns could severe the impact supply. Meanwhile, traditionally tea heavy markets from around the globe are drinking more. That's right. You guessed it coffee. So while supply goes down, demand goes up, meaning that in a few short years, coffee is in danger of becoming a luxury item that only a few can afford and that may put Lorenzo out of a job. Wait what and it's not just Lorenzo's job and your coffee at stake.

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If we don't get this right, it could mean the loss of millions of jobs, and it would impact the global economy. That's where Bambi comes in I.

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Lead the sustainable coffee challenge, a global effort to make coffee the world's first sustainable agricultural product. That's.

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Amazing Bambi: what does it mean if.

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We want to make sure that coffee is still available in the future. We need to make sure that we're protecting the borås and the fresh water that really sustains coffee production, well, really improving the livelihoods of the 25 million coffee producers in over 70 countries throughout the world that grow the coffee that we drink every day. That.

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Is incredible plan it sure is Lorenzo so who all is involved? I don't know, I was asking Bambi that make more sense. It's.

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A team effort it takes the goodwill of consumers of governments of companies of non-government organizations all working together. 75 partners from across the coffee industry have joined us, including some big brands like Starbucks and McDonald's, we're creating a model that we can replicate with every crop on earth. Since.

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Climate change is threatening our global food supply. We need to get coffees right, save the coffee, save the world, something.

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You think it'll work, there's.

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A lot of stake it has to work Mandy.

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To thank you for all your hard work. I make you this actually.

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Don't drink coffee? What.

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Welder Enzo, there is still something you can do for Bambi is a dinner hashtag, no, no hashtag, but you can be a part of the movement simply by asking your coffee shop, your barista, your grocery store. Is this coffee sustainable? Do you know where it comes from? This may seem small, but being part of the conversation helps to propel the movement.

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You can also go to sustain coffee, org.