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Climate Change And Food Security: Coffee Farmers In Tanzania

2015-05-18 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

International Business Times: Hundreds of farmers in Tanzania are abandoning crops of coffee and cotton due to changes in the local climate. Instead, theyre planting more lucrative vegetables and flowers as temperatures rise and rainfall becomes less predictable. Coffee beans are no longer as profitable, as my harvests keep on falling, Ludovick Meela, a farmer from Tanzanias northern Kilimanjaro region, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news organization. I need fast-growing crops...

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