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Aaron Davis

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew UK

Building a climate resilient coffee economy

RESILIENCEthe capacity to adapt successfully

in the face of threats or disaster

Understand the risk

LONDON 2100

Coffee product offerings from Harar

Coffee brewing in SW Ethiopia

15,000,000In Ethiopia

depend on coffee

A CLIMATE RESILIENT COFFEE ECONOMY FOR ETHIOPIATHE STRATEGIC CLIMATE INSTITUTIONS PROGRAMME (SCIP)

Sponsored by the Governments of the UK (DFID), Denmark and Norway

The issues

Ethiopia: increase in mean temp.

1.3 ˚C An increase of 0.28˚C per decade

UNDP Climate Change Profile Ethiopia. Lizcano et al. (2008)

Decrease in season precipitation

15% reduction main growing-season rainfall

Funk et al. 2008. PNAS 105: 11081–11086

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J. Williams

The challenges

The forest coffee (FC) system

The semi-forest coffee (FC) system

Agro-forestry systems

Sun coffee systems

Ethiopian Major coffee climate zones

Altitude range for Ethiopian Arabica: 1000 to 2200 m a.s.l

East of Rift

West of Rift

The coffee growing environment

Plant biology and physiologyThe coffee landscape

Climate and growing year

Methods and analyses

GIS Specialist Cartographer Coffee Specialist Climate Modeller

Spatial Analyst Vegetation Specialist Spatial data analyst Coffee Producers

Remote sensing via Landsat 8

Coffee forest (maximum)

Niche modelling

Robusta coffee

Distribution data

Niche distribution

Environmental data per grid square

Environmental layers (bioclims)

Potential coffee areas

NMA climate station data

Recording micro-climate variables

Measurement of micro-climate

Data-logger

Mini CS-logger

Coffee model testing and farming survey

Car routes

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Talking to farmers and communities

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Assessing stress and vulnerability

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Bale Mts. Mean temp. to 2100

Outcomes

Adaptation Strategy

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Coffee Atlas

Coffee Atlas

Page layout

•40 pages

•Covering all coffee areas

Coffee Atlas

Single page example

•Shows all humid forest

• Coffee growing suitability

overlaid on forest

• Other GIS map layers

What else did we learn?

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The use of other coffee species

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East Africa [including Eugenioides group]

Maurin et al. (2007)

Davis et al. (2013)

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There are now 124

species of coffee

across Africa and Asia

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The value of good agronomy

Intervention < Temperature >Soil moisture

1. Mulching ++ (soil) ++

2. Terracing + (soil) +(+)

3. Irrigation ++ (soil), + (air) +++

4. Pruning + (air)

5. Shade ++ (soil), ++ (air) +

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