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Coffee Deforestation in Brazil
October 30 , 2025
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- “Wake Up and Smell the Deforestation: Coffee’s Destruction of Brazilian Forests and its Future” was released by Coffee Watch, a non-profit organization focused on the environmental and social impacts of coffee production.
- Coffee cultivation directly caused the loss of 312,803 hectares of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest between 2001 and 2023.
- The Atlantic Forest once covered 1.2 million square kilometres, but today less than 10 percent remains.
- Brazil supplies around 40 percent of the world’s coffee, but forest loss threatens the long-term viability of the industry.
- Less than 1 percent of coffee areas use agroforestry, though it retains moisture better, and two-thirds of Brazil’s Arabica land could be lost by 2050.
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