Climate change threatens Brazil's coffee crop


	Climate change threatens Brazil's coffee crop

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2-19-2009 10:43 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d1d9c000-033c-46b3-9d9f-d215f9eed50a/9093DA5C-2006-4241-A8A9-EC39DC18BABA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jLlwKF9v4lG1kf6BeR1x4mK6qL2AD96E5K2G0" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jLlwKF9v4lG1kf6BeR1x4mK6qL2AD96E5K2G0" style="font-size: 11px;">www.google.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jLlwKF9v4lG1kf6BeR1x4mK6qL2AD96E5K2G0"> The future for Brazil's mighty farm sector could be grim, with hotter temperatures pushing crops past its borders, uphill into the Andes and toward the tip of South America.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jLlwKF9v4lG1kf6BeR1x4mK6qL2AD96E5K2G0">Experts in tropical agriculture are developing genetically modified coffee, soy beans and other crops that can withstand higher temperatures in Brazil's expanding northeastern desert, new pests and diseases and more flooding in low-lying areas.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jLlwKF9v4lG1kf6BeR1x4mK6qL2AD96E5K2G0">That could mean a 10 percent reduction Brazil's arable land for coffee by 2020 — and a one-third reduction by 2070 — as the crop's suitable climate migrates into the Andean foothills of neighboring Argentina</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jLlwKF9v4lG1kf6BeR1x4mK6qL2AD96E5K2G0">Brazil's coffee plantations extend across 5.7 million acres (2.3 million hectares) and produce more than twice as much as the next-largest grower, Vietnam.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9093DA5C-2006-4241-A8A9-EC39DC18BABA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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