Andrea Illy: the disappearance of 50 per cent coffee lands is an increasingly concrete prospect

“Experts already said ten years ago that 50 per cent of the world’s coffee-growing land would be gone, due to climate change, and today this prospect is increasingly real.

Andrea Illy, president of illycaffè, thus recalled a prediction made over a decade ago during an interview in Rome at the headquarters of the Foreign Press Association in Italy, conducted by Bernard Bedarida in front of an audience of correspondents from international newspapers.

For Illy, the climate issue is no longer a distant scenario, but a factor that directly affects the future availability of coffee.