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>>8639470
>It should be forbidden to use new clearcut land to establish new coffee plantations.
>Cultivate what is now used to grow coffee and deal with it.

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME BIG TIME ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION INTRODUCING
THIS IDEA TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN ALL THE COUNTRIES GROWING COFFEE

AND NOT ONLY SAVING THE NEW LAND BUT ALSO SAVING WATER THAT IS USED ON COFFEE PLANTATIONS
WATER THAT COULD BE USED TO GROW REAL FOOD NOT FOR THIS UNNECESSARY LUXURY

302. The Water Footprint Of Your Coffee
http://coffeelands.crs.org/2012/09/302-the-water-footprint-of-your-coffee/

"Since early August, I have published at least one post per week on the relationship between coffee and water resources.
In several of those posts I have made mention of coffee’s “water footprint” without much exploration of the concept.
According to this excellent study, coffee’s water footprint is 140 liters (or 37 gallons) per cup."
The study suggests that in terms of the overall water footprint of coffee, it doesn’t matter very much whether farmers are wet-processing their coffee —
a sequence that involves depulping, fermenting and washing or processing it naturally drying the coffee bean inside the cherry and eliminating altogether the need for water use in the coffee process.

For the overall water need in coffee production, it makes hardly any difference whether the dry or wet production process is applied, because the water used
in the wet production process is a very small fraction (0.34%) of the water used to grow the coffee plant.
Picking up where the previous quote leaves off, the authors explain that the small amount of water used in coffee processing is disproportionately important:
However, the impact of this relatively small amount of water is often significant.
First, it is blue water (abstracted from surface and ground water), which is sometimes scarcely available. Second, the wastewater generated in the wet production process is often heavily polluted.