{"id":26544,"date":"2025-04-24T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26544"},"modified":"2025-04-24T09:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:24:03","slug":"an-e-u-deforestation-rule-has-ethiopian-coffee-farmers-scrambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26544","title":{"rendered":"An E.U. Deforestation Rule Has Ethiopian Coffee Farmers Scrambling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The measure will require geolocation data to show that beans aren\u2019t linked to deforestation. Farmers say they need more time to prepare.<\/p>\n

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Farmers in Africa that produce some of the world\u2019s most prized coffee are in a scramble to comply with new European Union environmental rules that require them to document the origin of every shipment of beans.<\/p>\n

The new measure, coming into force at the end of this year, is designed to prevent deforestation driven by agricultural expansion. To comply, farmers must provide geolocation data to show that their coffee was not grown on land where forests have recently been cut down.<\/p>\n

After Dec. 31, any producers that cannot provide this documentation will lose access to the vast European market.<\/p>\n

Europe consumes more coffee than any country or bloc in the world and experts say the new rule, formally known as the E.U. Deforestation Regulation, is a potentially powerful tool to promote sustainable agriculture and prevent forest destruction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But it also represents what some are calling a \u201cgreen squeeze\u201d that imposes heavy burdens on millions of small farmers in developing countries that have contributed the least to climate change, and tests ability of policymakers to balance the needs of people and the needs of nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course data is very important to us, but what we are just saying is we need support,\u201d said Dejene Dadi, head of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union. \u201cIt\u2019s very challenging and costly and we don\u2019t have any help.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The measure will require geolocation data to show that beans aren\u2019t linked to deforestation. Farmers say they need more time to prepare.Farmers in Africa that produce some of the world\u2019s most prized coffee are in a scramble to comply with new European Union environmental rules that require them to document the origin of every shipment of beans.The new measure, coming into force at the end of this year, is designed to prevent deforestation driven by agricultural expansion. To comply, farmers must provide geolocation data to show that their coffee was not grown on land where forests have recently been cut down.After Dec. 31, any producers that cannot provide this documentation will lose access to the vast European market.Europe consumes more coffee than any country or bloc in the world and experts say the new rule, formally known as the E.U. Deforestation Regulation, is a potentially powerful tool to promote sustainable agriculture and prevent forest destruction.But it also represents what some are calling a \u201cgreen squeeze\u201d that imposes heavy burdens on millions of small farmers in developing countries that have contributed the least to climate change, and tests ability of policymakers to balance the needs of people and the needs of nature.\u201cOf course data is very important to us, but what we are just saying is we need support,\u201d said Dejene Dadi, head of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union. \u201cIt\u2019s very challenging and costly and we don\u2019t have any help.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26546,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26547,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26544\/revisions\/26547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}