Coffee’s 1% Deforestation Blame: A New Study Challenges the Narrative
This is worth savoring: Coffee isn’t the villain in the deforestation story. A fresh study in Nature Food reveals the crop accounts for just 1% of agriculture-driven forest loss—a figure that upends years of industry anxiety. For years, coffee has been unfairly singled out as a deforestation driver, but the data now suggests the real culprits are far more menacing. The DeDuCE model, developed by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, tracks 184 commodities across 179 countries over two decades. By mapping 9,332 unique footprints, it paints a precise picture of land-use shifts. The results? Coffee’s footprint is minuscule compared…