Coffee cultivation is especially vulnerable to extreme climate events and unexpected changes in climate patterns. Although precipitation variability is characteristic of the Dominican Republic, in recent years extreme changes in rain and progressive temperature rise have been observed, triggering direct and indirect effects on coffee cultivation.
Aware of the importance of adopting responsive measures before climate change in the coffee sector, INDOCAFE, CNCCMDL, and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Dominican Republic agreed to carry out an analysis with ECLAC on the potential impacts of climate change on this sector. The analysis presented in this publication is part of the study on historical coffee production and yield trends with data provided by INDOCAFE, two emissions scenarios from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are used.
Climate change implies a series of multisectoral challenges that must be addressed with specific responses from the coffee sector, but with cases of cross-sectorial links that facilitate contributions from the public and private sectors, civil society, the academic sector, integration institutions and the international community. Said responses should form part of the comprehensive plan for national development as well as poverty reduction programs, with a special emphasis on maximizing co-benefits, and minimizing the cross-sectorial costs of the proposed actions.
