by Johannes Thoma | Jul 15, 2019 | Climate, coffee&climate, Tanzania, Water, Water management
Since 2010, the initiative for coffee&climate (c&c) implements its vision to enable coffee farmers worldwide to adapt to climate change. Water scarcity is one of the challenges, farmers face. HRNS-staff Johannes Thoma tells the story of the Idugumbi-Community...
by Alisher Sharipau | Aug 2, 2018 | Vietnam, Water, Water management
Y B’Lang Coffee was an economic game-changer in our area My name is Y B’lang, I live in Krong Buk region of Dak Lak province. In the end of the last century the farmers of our Cu Ne village were growing only rice and vegetables. We could hardly provide for our...
by Alisher Sharipau | Jul 5, 2018 | Vietnam, Water, Water management
This project goes with a slogan “Vietnam to produce more coffee with less water” and aims to ensure equitable and sufficient water availability in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and to significantly save water through improved irrigation management in the coffee...
by Alisher Sharipau | Mar 12, 2018 | Vietnam, Water management
A year ago now, in March 2017 first Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) stations were installed at six locations in Dak Lak to test the technology and decide on its future implementstion in the Central Highlands to help coffee farmers deal with water scarcity during the...
by Alisher Sharipau | Nov 17, 2017 | Climate, Irrigation, Vietnam, Water, Water management
Watering coffee plants during the blooming stage is vital in the Central Highlands. Without proper irrigation flowers remain small and prone to wilthing. They wouldn’t develop into good cherries. Which would mean poorer yields and lower income. No wonder almost all...
