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Accepted Paper:

The Other Green Gold: "The impact of Climate Change on Blue Mountain Coffee"  
Sharon Nelson (University of Technology)

Paper short abstract:

The production of Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaica’s premium specialty coffee is declining. This paper comments on the decline of production, the impact of climate change and the farmers’ adaptation measures and makes recommendation for the adoption of future measures.

Paper long abstract:

The production of Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaica's premium specialty coffee is declining. Climate change accounts for a part of this decline: hurricanes, diseases and drought.

Climate change is a major challenge to agriculture development in Jamaica due to the country's small land mass, fragile ecosystems, high dependence on food imports and increasing impacts of frequent natural disasters. It is important that Blue Mountain Coffee address the issues of climate change. Failure to do so will result in further reductions in the coffee yields. In a study done by the World Bank in 2011 for the Government of Jamaica - Coffee industry Board, Ministry of Agriculture they found that coffee grown by farmers in the Blue Mountain Region of Jamaica is subject to damage from high winds and heavy rains associated with major tropical cyclones (hurricanes and tropical storms) . They identified strong winds and heavy rainfall as the risks associated with the greatest losses on the coffee sector in the Blue Mountains.

This paper comments on the decline of production, the impact of climate change and the farmers' adaptation measures and makes recommendation for the adoption of future measures.

Panel P40
Climate Change and Economic Sustainability - The Case of Robusta and Arabica Coffee
  Session 1