A robust future? Why Brazil’s ‘bitter’ coffee is thriving as the climate crisis hits global crops

Long seen as the poor relation to arabica, small growers in the Amazon are rebooting the more resilient robusta’s reputation Read more in the Coffee crisis series here When the Paiter Suruí community expelled the last invaders of their land in 1981, they faced a divisive decision. Should they keep the coffee plantations left by the colonisers? Some destroyed them because of the death and violence contact with the non-Indigenous world had caused. Others felt sorry for the trees and couldn’t ...

By Paula Moura