Climate change endangers Ugandan coffee


	Climate change endangers Ugandan coffee

BirdBarista

7-17-2008 9:41 PM

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BirdBarista says:

I wrote a piece about climate change and coffee, including before-and-after maps of Uganda, in 2006. Read it here: http://tinyurl.com/6cgrd8

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