Why Vietnam’s coffee beans might outlast others - Asia Specific podcast, BBC World Service
Description: Written off as the inferior bean, robusta coffee might have the last laugh as climate change makes arabica harder to grow.
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While rising heat pushes prized arabica-growing regions to their limits, robusta, the stronger but less fruity-tasting bean, can handle the temperatures arabica can't.
Vietnam is the world's undisputed robusta leader and the planet's second-biggest coffee exporter overall, which means a warming world could actually hand it an edge other coffee nations don't have.
But the story isn't that simple. Vietnam's coffee farmers are ageing, EU deforestation rules threaten a market that buys up to half the country's exports, and many growers have shifted in and out of coffee towards durian and avocado depending on which crop pays best that year.
So could climate change reshape the global balance between robusta and arabica for good — and is Vietnam's coffee boom actually built to last?
On this episode of Asia Specific, host Mariko Oi is joined by BBC senior journalist Sen Nguyen and Thuan Sarzynski, who leads coffee sustainability efforts in Vietnam for commodities trading group ECOM Agroindustrial.
00:00 Introduction
01:50 Coffee's importance to Vietnam
03:20 The four types of coffee beans
05:06 How Vietnam became a coffee powerhouse
07:20 Where are Vietnam's coffee exports going?
07:45 Are Vietnam's coffee growers cushioned from climate change?
08:40 Could arabica coffee go extinct?
09:40 Are coffee growers dying out?
11:38 How the EU's deforestation policy affects Vietnam
13:15 Future outlook
14:32 Are younger farmers innovating in Vietnam?
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While rising heat pushes prized arabica-growing regions to their limits, robusta, the stronger but less fruity-tasting bean, can handle the temperatures arabica can't.
Vietnam is the world's undisputed robusta leader and the planet's second-biggest coffee exporter overall, which means a warming world could actually hand it an edge other coffee nations don't have.
But the story isn't that simple. Vietnam's coffee farmers are ageing, EU deforestation rules threaten a market that buys up to half the country's exports, and many growers have shifted in and out of coffee towards durian and avocado depending on which crop pays best that year.
So could climate change reshape the global balance between robusta and arabica for good — and is Vietnam's coffee boom actually built to last?
On this episode of Asia Specific, host Mariko Oi is joined by BBC senior journalist Sen Nguyen and Thuan Sarzynski, who leads coffee sustainability efforts in Vietnam for commodities trading group ECOM Agroindustrial.
00:00 Introduction
01:50 Coffee's importance to Vietnam
03:20 The four types of coffee beans
05:06 How Vietnam became a coffee powerhouse
07:20 Where are Vietnam's coffee exports going?
07:45 Are Vietnam's coffee growers cushioned from climate change?
08:40 Could arabica coffee go extinct?
09:40 Are coffee growers dying out?
11:38 How the EU's deforestation policy affects Vietnam
13:15 Future outlook
14:32 Are younger farmers innovating in Vietnam?
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