What are the consequences of climate change for coffee production, for people, for the beverage itself, and indeed for the entire industry?
Chahan Yeretzian has been researching coffee for 20 years. At ZHaW in Wädenswil, he built the Coffee Excellence Center and at the Speciality Coffee Association, he helps determine what coffee research should specialize in.
We talk about coffee from the laboratory, about underfunded coffee research in cultivation, and overheated markets for innovations at the end of the supply chain. Chahan is thorough, questioning things that many coffee professionals take for granted. The coffee of the future may partly come from the laboratory, but it must not be technologically blind - 45 minutes with the coffee professor on the future of coffee.
Coffee is part of climate change. We all have a say in whether it becomes more part of the solution or part of the problem.
