State your Position
I’m doing shade grown coffee and it will the environment because it filters carbon dioxide and uses little to none chemicals, fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides. Conventional Coffee is the most chemically treated food and it has environmental destruction, exploitation of farmers and has wasteful packaging and large carbon emissions. However, Shade grown coffee uses less chemical fertilizer, helps keep rainforests alive, gives homes to birds, filters carbon dioxide, uses little to none chemicals, fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides, minimizes erosions.
Explain your Position
Agriculture (including but not limited to coffee) makes almost 12% of greenhouse gasses. Then the ships or aircraft used to transport coffee uses about 16 tons of fuel per hour which can add up to 380 tons of fuel a day. Next, the supply train which brings the coffee to the cafe it generates 50% of carbon emissions. From the journey, 5.5 pounds of carbons emissions are being released. That one pound of coffee leaves a 10-11 pound carbon emissions. Each American consumes more than 9 pounds of coffee a year, that makes
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Also preserving ecosystems is an advantage of shade grown coffee. This is because not cutting down as many trees which make homes for birds. This reduces carbon emissions because fewer trees are getting cut down which means that more carbon is getting absorbed by the trees that are still up. Another advantage of shade grown coffee is soil conservation. This is because conventional coffee plantations are dependent on chemicals suffer from soil decreasing and regular coffee plantations suffer from increased erosion also rainforest are removed to make sure there is fresh growing ground for the coffee. However shade grown coffee does not do this so less soil is
The article was written in response to the statement farming and food production is leading to climate change. Niman, being a rancher who raises cattle, goats, and turkeys, effectively frames the situation logically by providing credible statistics and examples to help the reader better understand the impacts of different methods of food production. She does this by providing specific information regarding the greenhouse gases involved, being carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxides. Niman, the rhetor, has written this article to try and inform the readers about the differences between traditional style and industrial style methods of food production. She has directed the article towards those concerned about the carbon footprint, we as individuals, are leaving
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Literature review General impacts of climate change on coffee Temperature and rainfall conditions are important factors in defining potential coffee yield, as they interfere in the crop phenology, productivity and quality. The Arabica coffee plant responds sensitively to increasing temperatures, during blossoming and fructification. Marcelo Camargo from the Agronomic Institute of the University of Campinas in Brazil (IAC) states that mean temperatures above 23°C hinder the development and ripening of cherries and a continuous exposure to daily temperatures as high as 30°C could result in reduced growth or even in yellowing and loss of leaves. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Eco-Crop model gives information on optimal and absolute temperatures for coffee Arabica, ranging from 14°C to 28°C and 10°C to 30°C. Additionally, (FAO, 2012) reports that, besides the direct impacts of fluctuating temperatures and rainfall on the coffee crop, there is increased disease emergence and/or intensification of the occurrence of certain insect pests and diseases like coffee berry borer (CBB) was previously nonexistent at above 1600masl (Le Pelley, 1968) but now found at 1864masl (Kyamanywa et al., 2009), out-breaks of coffee twig borer in central and south-western Uganda (Egonyu et al., 2009), Intensification of coffee lace bug, stem borer and root mealybug in Eastern Uganda (UCDA, 2008), general decline in soil fertility due to floods – leakage,
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Also impacting per capita coffee consumption, another industry driver. • Consumers switching to competing lower priced substitutes or
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