Dive Brief:
- The traditional growing regions for coffee, avocados and cashews will shift over the next three decades due to climate change, with coffee most negatively affected, according to a recent analysis by researchers with Zurich University of Applied Sciences published in Plos One.
- Researchers tracked soil data and analyzed climate projections across the main growing regions for the three crops to determine their suitability in 2050. Coffee would see the biggest decline in suitable growing conditions in regions where it is currently grown, including Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia and Colombia. Meanwhile, the current major producing areas for avocados and cashews would shrink in suitability, but the crops could shift to regions with higher altitudes and latitudes where temperatures would be lower, like the U.S., Argentina, China and East Africa.
- Adapting to changing growing conditions due to the effects of climate change will…
