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This is the first of Karoline Kan\u2019s\u00a0two-part series on coffee growing in the Mekong region. Part two is available\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In villages around the city of Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnamese farmers are waiting for the monsoon that normally arrives in April or May.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fruits look ripe outside, but the bean is crispy and small because there was not enough rain,\u201d says 28-year-old Y Bel Eban from Krong village, pointing to some small green beans in his hand.<\/p>\n

Mr Eban said there were only three 30-minute downpours this spring. These were no good for the coffee plants, which need water every 15 to 20 days.\u00a0Many plants died, hurting local farmers who depend on coffee to make a living.<\/p>\n

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Buon Ma Thuot is the largest city in the \u201ccoffee kingdom\u201d of Vietnam\u2019s central highlands. Ninety five percent of the country\u2019s coffee is produced in this area, helping to make Vietnam the world\u2019s second-largest coffee exporter after Brazil.<\/p>\n

A few kilometres away from Buon Ma Thuot, a major tributary of the Mekong, the Srepock river, flows from the central highlands into northeastern Cambodia. On its journey through six Asian countries the Mekong provides livelihoods for at least 60 million people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet the severe drought in the region of the lower Mekong basin, which encompasses Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and southwestern China, has pushed the river to its lowest level in a century<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the world warms, farmers will experience events like this more often. How they grow coffee will have its own part to play, with intensive farming potentially leading to soil depletion and deforestation.<\/p>\n

Climate change and water shortage<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Sun-grown
\nCoffee plants grown in the direct sun in a\u00a0village\u00a0near Buon Ma Thuot, central highlands, Vietnam (Image: Karoline Kan\/China Dialogue)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past, rains arrived earlier and on time and the weather was more predictable,\u201d said Mr Eban, \u201cbut in the past few years, the weather has been exceptionally harsh.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drought has been a constant burden for Vietnam\u2019s coffee-growing provinces in recent years. In 2016, it caused a state of emergency<\/a> in the central and southern regions of the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Coffee growing itself can worsen the problem of water scarcity. In 2018, Vietnam grew coffee across 688,400 hectares, yielding over 1.6 million tons of beans. With so many plantations in need of water for irrigation in the central highlands \u2013 and unpredictable weather limiting rainfall \u2013 ponds, lakes and groundwater have been drying out. To maintain basic irrigation, local farmers are having to dig wells deeper and deeper.<\/p>\n

Associate Professor Dr. Le Anh Tuan of the University of Can Tho, a leading expert on climate change in the Mekong delta, said that recent droughts in the region show signs of being affected by climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have become more frequent than in the past and… they often take extreme forms in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across the lower Mekong basin, temperatures have risen by between 0.5 to 1.5 \u00baC in the past 50 years and continue to rise, according to WWF<\/a>. The onset of monsoon rain may be getting less reliable, and \u201cthese trends are very likely to accelerate and intensify in coming decades as the rate of climate change increases\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Greater<\/a><\/p>\n

Land changes, such as deforestation and desertification, also contribute to extreme weathers events. The IPCC\u2019s latest report, \u201cClimate Change and Land<\/a>\u201d, shows how such changes can increase the intensity and duration of extreme heat and rainfall, sometimes in areas hundreds of kilometers away. Because plants evapotranspire, \u201cchanges in forest cover directly affect regional surface temperature\u2026 Increased evapotranspiration can result in cooler days during the growing season and can reduce the amplitude of heat related events.\u201d<\/p>\n

The situation upriver<\/strong><\/p>\n

More than a thousand kilometres up the Mekong from Buon Ma Thuot, the coffee farmers of Yunnan province have also been feeling the heat.<\/p>\n

In this Chinese stretch of the Mekong (where it is known as the Lancang) Li Yemei grows coffee near her village of Dakaihe.<\/p>\n

She pointed to the dry leaves of her crop and explained she will lose money this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany coffee trees have died from drought,\u201d Mrs\u00a0Li said. \u201cThe coffee didn\u2019t blossom fully, and the fruits didn\u2019t grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Farmer<\/a>
\nFarmer Li Yemei (first on the right) sits outside her house with friends (Image: Karoline Kan\/China Dialogue)<\/span><\/p>\n

Dakaihe is a coffee-growing village close to Pu\u2019er, a place world-famous for its black tea. In fact, Pu\u2019er also makes up half of Yunnan\u2019s coffee yield, which in turn accounts for \u00a095% of China<\/a>\u2019s coffee production.<\/p>\n

Coffee has been grown in Yunnan for more than a century, but the scale was small until Nestle began to buy<\/a> beans from the province in the 1980s. High profit margins in the \u201980s and \u201990s lured many tea farmers to switch and the industry expanded quickly.<\/p>\n

But from 2009 to 2013 droughts occurred<\/a> in Yunnan every winter, bringing water shortages and turning farmland barren for millions of residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cYunnan is suffering from an increasing adverse effect from climate change,\u201d said Ding Yihui,<\/a> special adviser on climate change at the China Meteorological Administration, to provincial officials. \u201cClimate change has affected Yunnan\u2019s socio-economic development and people\u2019s living environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was certainly true in 2011, when a bitter cold snap<\/a> impacted four million people and caused losses of 1.5 billion yuan (US$225 million).<\/p>\n

Ding added that climate change weakens nature\u2019s ability to adjust and restore, and has extended the drought in Yunnan.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor sensitive plants like coffee, even a short drought can ruin an entire year\u2019s crop,\u201d said Juliet Lu, a member of the Land Lab at UC Berkeley\u2019s Department of Environmental Science.<\/p>\n

\"Sun-grown<\/a>
\nSun-grown coffee plants in the mountains of Pu\u2019er, Yunnan province, China (Image: Karoline Kan\/ China Dialogue)<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Yunnan Coffee Industry Association, the drought this year affected more than 2,000 hectares of coffee in Yunnan, and production would decline by 5-10%.<\/p>\n

In Vietnam, coffee output is also predicted to fall sharply due to water scarcity, Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), climate change will have made about half of the world\u2019s coffee-producing land unsuitable<\/a> by 2050.<\/p>\n

\u201cDifferent studies show that the size of the areas suitable for coffee production will decrease significantly in the next 20 to 30 years because of climatic change,\u201d said Annegret Brauss, project manager at the International Trade Centre in Geneva, where she is working on the climate resilience of international value chains in Africa. \u201cThe industry faces challenges from extreme weathers, such as the interruption of transport routes due to heavy rains or challenges in the coffee drying process due to increasingly unpredictable weather patterns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Environmental costs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coffee can be cultivated in two main ways<\/a>: in the sun or in the shade of larger trees. The plant has evolved to grow underneath forest canopy, where the quality of the soil provides it with good nourishment. Shade trees prevent soil erosion, maintain soil health and hold water, as well as provide a habitat for native wildlife.<\/p>\n

Farmers following the sun-grown method cut down trees to increase production and growing speed. Since sun-grown was introduced in the 1970s, 60% of the world\u2019s 6 million acres of coffee land has been stripped of shade trees<\/a>. Almost all of the coffee produced in Vietnam and China is sun-grown and sold as raw beans for instant coffee, which requires quantity more than quality.<\/p>\n

\"Coffee<\/a><\/span>
\nCoffee cherry in Mr Eban\u2019s coffee farm\u00a0(Image: Karoline Kan\/China Dialogue)<\/span><\/p>\n

The global coffee industry is worth $100 billion<\/a> and rising. But the huge industry profits from the second-most traded commodity in the world are not trickling down to the people who grow the beans. Farmers can often not afford to use the shade-grown method, because it means smaller yields.<\/p>\n

Coffee is sold at a price that has little to do with the cost of growing it. Traded as a commodity, coffee\u2019s price changes every minute at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), a major commodities trading hub based in New York City. The price is determined by supply, demand and speculation<\/a>. The price can vary slightly depending on factors such as brand reputation and output, but in general the commercial coffee market is a buyers\u2019 market, according to Tim Heinze, chief executive officer of Yunnan Coffee Traders.<\/a><\/p>\n

The share of the money going to farmers like Mr Eban in Buon Ma Thuot is paltry. Last year, revenue from his 2.6 hectare coffee plantation was 110 million Vietnamese Dong (US$4,740). Revenues are are even smaller for farmers in China because costs \u2013 from fertiliser to labour fees \u2013 are higher. Yunnan farmer Li Yemei said she has barely made any money from coffee in the past four years. To make ends meet her husband has to find temporary jobs on construction sites in town.<\/p>\n

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\nPropaganda posters near\u00a0Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam:\u00a0\u201cLocal authority and people should be unified and determined to uphold the achieved criteria of constructing the new countryside\u201d (Image: Karoline Kan\/ China Dialogue<\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Low prices push farmers to sun-grown, which in turn puts pressure on forests. Climate expert Peter Baker at CAB International,<\/a> a non-profit organisation aimed at solving problems in agriculture and the environment, estimated<\/a> that each year global coffee production grows by about 2% and uses an additional 100,000 hectares (almost two-thirds the size of London). In nearly all countries where coffee production is expanding rapidly, deforestation is the primary source of new coffee lands.<\/p>\n

In Vietnam, coffee production grew by nearly 100 fold<\/a> between 1986 and 2016. Tens of thousands of square miles<\/a> of forest in the country have been cut down since the 1970s, some to make way for sun-grown coffee, tea and rubber. Much of the coffee land is now severely exhausted because of the chemical fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides used to drive up yields.<\/p>\n

The trees acted as a natural barrier to pests and disease. Once the farmers removed them they had to start using chemical pesticides. Furthermore, rain began falling directly onto the land, washing away nutritious soil and requiring the use of more fertilisers, in a vicious circle.<\/p>\n

According to the IPCC\u2019s latest report, land degradation contributes to climate change, which in turn puts more pressure on agricultural activities. When land is degraded, it reduces the soil\u2019s ability to absorb carbon and exacerbates climate change. Currently agriculture, forestry and other land use generates 23% of net greenhouse gases emissions. And natural land processes \u2013\u00a0such as soil formation, nutrient cycles and water cycles \u2013 absorb around a third of greenhouse gases emitted by burning fossil fuels and industrial processes.<\/p>\n

Twenty-seven-year-old coffee farmer Thuyl Nie from Cu Pong commune remembers how it was in his childhood, when there were still thick forests and wild animals running on the mountains nearby.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut now you can see, it\u2019s only bare hills.\u201d
\nAdditional reporting by Nhung Nguyen. The story received support from Internews\u2019 Earth Journalism Network. Read part two here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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