title: Coffee and chocolate in danger.
abstract: As a rapidly growing global consumer base appreciates the pleasures of coffee and chocolate and health warnings are being replaced by more encouraging sounds from medical experts, their supply is under threat from climate change, pests and financial problems. Coffee farmers in Central America, in particular, are highly vulnerable to the impact of climate change, made worse by financial insecurity. Michael Gross reports.
authors.affiliation: Michael Gross is a science writer based at Oxford. He can be contacted via his web page at www.michaelgross.co.uk.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000191:economics*; D002099:Cacao / Q000191:economics*; D002182:Candy / Q000191:economics; D002489:Central America; D057231:Climate Change; D003069:Coffee / Q000191:economics*
chemical_list: D003069:Coffee