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Building resilience
These findings are supported by the Adaption
to Climate Change for smallholders project
(AdapCC), which was launched by the Fairtrade
coffee company Cafédirect in 20071. Their
coffee farmers in East Africa and Latin
America have reported that changes in climate
have negatively affected coffee production.
“I have never known the weather to be so
unpredictable,” says Willington Wamayeye,
the General Manager of the Gumutindo Coffee
Cooperative in Uganda which supplies coffee to
Cafédirect. “The coffee plants are badly affected