Coffee production is no longer what it was thanks to innovative growers and brave farmers. Coffee can now be grown using methods that promote biodiversity in fields, plantations and forests, while also ensuring that farmers earn more.
David Benitez is one of these coffee pioneers. The young agroecologist from Honduras studied the holistic cultivation techniques used by his indigenous ancestors, and found ways to combine these with modern permaculture methods. David now trains other coffee producers. Teaching farmers has huge potential, as 80% of coffee worldwide is still grown by small farmers. By changing the coffee growing methods they use, these small farmers could actually help fight climate change, while increasing their income.
The start-up “The Coffee Cherry Company” is also helping coffee producers be able to live more comfortably off the fruits of their labor – literally. To make coffee beans only the seeds of coffee cherries are roasted. The pulp of the fruit usually gets discarded. But this company buys this byproduct, and turns it into coffee flour. This healthy and tasty ingredient can be used in cakes, bread and pasta, and has already been dubbed “the new superfood” in the US. It’s a win-win-model, which provides coffee farmers with another source of income, while also protecting the environment and benefitting consumers.
Another long-forgotten plant that has been re-discovered are lupines. The flowering plant is native to Germany and is already being used as a base ingredient for tofu and yoghurt alternatives. But this brightly blooming legume has even more to offer, as its beans can also be roasted and brewed. Family Klein has developed their very own stomach-friendly coffee creation, called Lupino. The family has been growing lupines on their organic farm for years, and delivers the lupine coffee to customers across Europe. Thanks to short transport routes and production that consumes less water, Lupino is a climate-friendly alternative to coffee.
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46 Comments
21.000L of water to produce 1kg of coffee??? Just one of the missinformation of this "documentary"
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If anyone will have the morality like that of Mr. Lowell Powell and his wife, there will be no poor people in the world. By the way, for the sustainable coffee farming to happen there must be direct relationship between coffee buyers and producers. In Tanzania mainly in Kagera and Mbeya, coffee are produced under shades of bananas, gliveria and "mihumula" trees. They fertilize soil by using grasses and cow dungs. There must be direct relationship with farmers co-operatives. In Bukoba coffee pulps are dried by sun, taken back to be spread in the banana farms to cover soil against weeds, they become manure.
Chewing the uncooked coffee cherries😷😷! We, the Haya tribe in Kagera region of Tanzania, we chew the cooked unripe coffee.
Fantastic documentary coverage video about coffee ☕️ its plantations, production in their main ,ordinary areas & in Germany 🇩🇪 in the future…DW always sharing excellent subjects… video labeled to problems that facing farmers in South America contents…allot thanks
Even coffee won't be spared from the so-called "politically-correct madness".
This is bluff and BS from start to finish. Coffee needs shade and grows under shady trees ONLY. We grow coffee in India. Coffee is a rainfed crop. What are they talking about? Absolute nonsense and I have just heard 5 minutes of the clip.
were is coffee original from Africa ?
As always, I learn so much about the world from the work you guys do. Thanks so much for this video. :3
Stop drink coffee! Drink tea!
Hmm.
Is the coffee bean the average size of the post natal conception fetus?
Making the image of a human hand holding some spare bean; contrite and attractive.
DW is back to their old tricks. Read between the lines and don't let the mischievous ones fool you.
In coming years east African especially ethiopian coffee will attract more consumers in worldwide market. It's organic and delicious
I going to give up drinking coffee and replace it with tea.
when EU cut forrest to open farmland ,,it's good,,,,!!!
when another countrys cut the forrest to open farmland ,,,this deforestation,,,😂😅😆
So David's coffee from Honduras is handpicked on a farm with no electricity. It then gets shipped to Europe, resulting in some carbon emissions. The Klein's "coffee" is a substitute bean produced on a farm with big machinery. I'll just have a cup of coffee from Honduras, thanks.
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How do we buy the Catratcha coffee in the US. ?
Everybody drink coffee not because of the taste, but because it's "very light drug" and stimulate. If you want to proceed from coffee to something else, find some plant with similar effect.. and legal 😁
We need everyone to see this
In Hondujistan, those Turks and Palestinians prefer to plant Afrikan palm for export, they even cut down half of the mosquitia forest just to produce palm oil or make biofuel or electricity to sell at high prices to the government and the worst thing is that the palm oil It's not cheap in Hondujistan at a point where some local shops sell used palm oil they also get tax exoneration and they believe that they live in switzerland to laundry money like maniacs with their banks and drug money even i want to go to harvest coke in the mountain then work 12 hours a day in a slave factory in choloma.
these farmers should be living good. Sad
This documentary makes great points about problems and coffee production however the solution of growing lupine does not seem viable because lupine does not contain caffeine nor betacarbolines and so is unlikely to replace the true reason for coffee consumption in most people
Indigenous, Aboriginal & Native all mean the same thing
In the matter of fact, Farmers are mostly underrated & do not get what they invest! Bitter-truth! Yet climate change is conspicuous ever
You Should be Worry That Your land is now Contaminated! How can you say that your coffee is organic when your soil is contaminated!!!!!!
lupine interesting….but I need caffeine lol
If the cherries taste fruity and there is so much of it going to waste, ferment it, create a new brew
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I ❤️ Coffee
DW normally has very well done documentaries, but some time it seems the Documentary is done to some people or by some people who can do or pay for them…
The documentary is biased towards only one part of the world that produces coffee. In Uganda – the biggest coffee exporter in Africa, coffee is primarily produced organically and we use the coffee husks as a key fertilizer in plantations and also as a basal material for deep-liter poultry farming. Also, the massive water requirements are usually associated with wet processing to remove the husks. But in Uganda, our coffee is dried in the sun directly due to the all year available sun.
We don’t agree with the current practice where Germany – a country with no single coffee plant, benefits more than 150 Billion dollars annually from coffee and the rest of all coffee growing countries share a miserable 40B dollars. We desire to move away from shipping raw coffee beans to Germany and other coffee consuming societies in the global north. Our desire is to begin exporting final coffee products such as instant soluble coffee, coffee snacks, roasted coffee beans etc. That way we will be able to retain majority of the coffee value in communities which actually do the hard work to produce this coffee.
The global coffee trade is biased against the coffee producers. We need to empower the producing communities to be able to realize real value from their sweat.
Evil small artisan family coffee farmers….. maybe we should shut them down to make more room for palm oil plantations to feed Europes bio-fuel quoto.
Look how wealthy a person is, with a little land of their own. That’s always been an unnecessary problem
I'm glad I get my coffee outside my kitchen…farm to cup
Amazing! What a well put together story of sustainable coffee farming : )
The virtue signaling never stops.
Not everybody is buying their coffee from South America where there are huge plantations. Coffee in South East Asia is simply grown under existing trees. It is a matter of paying a bit more for your coffee. Oh, I forgot, Netstlé and other multinationals do not give a rat's ass about sustainability. see where their bottled water comes from.
Europe should pick coffee directly from farmers , OR instal coffee processing near farm lands inspite of buying coffee from Big traders through auction .
This will make coffee less cost and affordable to every one in world .
Actually pure coffee without added other ingredients can be as low cost as 0.1 Euros a cup.
I Grow coffee and I an not clear who made coffee so costly , I my place a kg of fried bean shall be 2 Euros .
I'll keep drinking the old stuff. Far too many exagerations about alleged global warming!
So informative and educational, I am an avid filter coffee drinker, I was completely unaware of 'the cherry', so many thanks, keep up the good work. Paul, Johannesburg
Um if you simply just composted the shell of the bean in big composting tanks you could have captured the methane and made energy and use the extra gas to cook and you also would have made fertilizer.
But no you cook it releasing lots of co2 i mean look at that black smoke out of that chimney.
Also it didn't look good and the people who tried it and said it tasted good most look payed to say that because there face said 🤢.
I’m from india and here coffee is only grown as a shade crop under big trees like coconut, rubber and Areca nut.
Since 19th century, Indian Coffee farmers are growing under wild tree shades. I too own a shade grown Coffee plantations.
No human activity is climate friendly
You simply cannot produce enviromentally friendly coffee at the volumes required to change coffee's impact. Stop industrial coffee production.