The coffee crisis is not going away. Once again, the news is all about the ever-rising price of coffee. At the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, coffee prices reached the highest level in almost 50 years. Coffee has not been this expensive since 1977.
The news begs the question: what is the state of coffee farming? Indeed, climate change is affecting traditional coffee farming. There are concerns about the availability of beans in the future, with Brazil, for example, having major problems with drought this year.
Filip van Noort of Wageningen University & Research said this summer that the greenhouse is back in the picture because of the coffee crisis. After previously investigating greenhouse farming for Douwe Egberts, a new party has recently come forward. "Maybe it's time to start looking seriously again at whether it is interesting to grow coffee in the greenhouse somewhere in the world," Filip opined on this channel this summer.