{"id":15,"date":"2013-07-16T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2013-07-16T15:17:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:17:15","slug":"coffee-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Coffee under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 20% of South America&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/graphicnews.com\/search\/search.php?alertno=11965\">coffee harvest<\/a> has been killed off by a fungus. We might get away without a massive price increase this year, but next year could be a different story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2013\/06\/26\/fungus-attacks-coffee-beans\/2461751\/\">according to <em>USA Today<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Green Mountain Coffee is one of the biggest buyers of coffee in the world, purchasing some 207 million pounds in 2012. [Senior director Lindsey] Bolger said the coffee market hasn&#8217;t responded to Central American production dropping by 20% this year because Brazil, the biggest coffee grower in the world, is expected to bring in a good crop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the situation will be very different next year, because despite a bumper crop from Brazil, if coffee rust continues to be an issue, and plants in Central America are weakened, production will be down even more than 20%,&#8221; Bolger said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Central America produces half of all arabica beans in the world, which makes me edgy for the future of my beloved coffee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 20% of South America&#8217;s coffee harvest has been killed off by a fungus. We might get away without a massive price increase this year, but next year could be a different story according to USA Today: Green Mountain Coffee is one of the biggest buyers of coffee in the world, purchasing some 207 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}