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Climate change hits Nicaraguan coffee farmers Rising temperatures spoil harvests and disease wiped out half of the region’s crop in the northern mountains 01 March 2021 - 15:44 Anna-Catherine Brigida Picture: 123RF/BELCHONOK Jinotega Maria Gonzalez knows that growing coffee in Nicaragua’s northern mountains as she has done since she was a little girl gets harder and harder each year. Rising temperatures are spoiling harvests when berries ripen too fast and a coffee leaf disease wiped out about half of the region’s crop between 2012 and 2014, killing most of Gonzalez’s plants. Just as her new plants were starting to flourish, whipping winds and torrential rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota last November uprooted the bushes and shook the unripe berries to the ground. With an initial hard few years now stretching into a decade, coffee farmers such as Gonzalez face a tough decision: stay loyal to their coffee crop or find a new way to survive.

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