Coffee: Time for a new bean?

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Liberica bean is a species of coffee that growers are hoping will make their crops sustainable in the future as the climate changes.

We speak to farmers struggling to grow the most popular coffee plants and taste test a Liberica brew.

Presenter / producer: Laura Heighton-Ginns

(Image: Martin Kinyua; Credit: Martin Kinyua)

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0:00.0	abnormal transactions.
0:03.0	Some kind of cyber attack on a bank.
0:05.1	Tens of millions of dollars.
0:07.0	Something I don't think anybody has seen before.
0:09.1	It's a cyber criminal group.
0:10.7	From the BBC World Service.
0:12.5	The Lazarus Heist is back for season two.
0:14.7	It was really like in the movies.
0:16.2	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:19.6	It's the first thing in the morning kickstab the day.
0:22.0	Once a day.
0:22.6	If it's a rough day at work, maybe two to three.
0:25.8	I just, I love it too much.
0:27.0	I always go back.
0:27.8	I think I'm now a bit addicted to Gisney a boost.
0:30.1	The caffeine factor is helpful for daily life.
0:37.0	Coffee, the most popular drink in the world,
0:40.1	with around 2 billion cups consumed every day.
0:43.9	But can you imagine life without it?
0:46.3	Because although it's hard to believe,
0:48.2	the coffee market as we know it is fighting for survival,
0:51.8	and now producers are looking at new ways to sustain supply that could
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