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happytiger · 2024-01-24 · Original thread
It’s complex. Demand is outstripping supply in something economists like to call The Coffee Paradox which actually has a book on the subject by the same name:

https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Paradox-Markets-Commodity-Deve....

More information on the short term and long term issues here:

https://financialpost.com/financial-times/peak-coffee-global...

https://m.economictimes.com/small-biz/trade/exports/insights...

But the most pressing issues long term are best summarized by this article which if you read nothing else is probably the best answer to your question:

https://econreview.berkeley.edu/a-world-without-coffee-the-s...

To boot, coffee is a monoculture and deeply vulnerable like bananas.

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