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Shade-grown coffee

Coffee growers in Uganda and elsewhere find climate change hurting their crops

Environment

In Uganda, the coffee trees are nearly empty — and it’s not because of the harvest. A combination of disease, lack of rain and rising temperatures are decimating coffee crops.

Climate Change Raises New Challenges for Uganda’s Coffee Farmers

Environment
Scarlet Tanagers are among the songbirds threatened by loss of habitat on conventional coffee plantations. The bird-friendly coffee movement is pushing to make growing beans for one of the world's favorite beverages more hospitable for birds and other wil

Bird-friendly’ coffee

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