The Climate Paralysis from Analysis

The Coffee Factor

Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions

Methane production from coffee waste

Source: Peter Kimari, Coffee Conference at Kimathi University July 2011

**Calvert 1999 1 ton cherry processed = 5 m3 methane**

Total methane produced in 2009/2010 crop season 1,781,250 m3

6.25 tons cherry

Wet/semi wet processing tons cherry

1.0 ton green beans

2.5 ton pulpWaste water

25 m3

1,250 kg COD375 kg BOD

Sources: Jan C. Von Enden & Ken C. Calvert

Coffee Processing Waste

Waste water:

Organic matter-de-pulping and mucilage removal

COD-makes up to 80% of pollution load

BOD-can reach up to 20 mg/l

Source: Peter Kimari, Coffee Conference at Kimathi University July 2011

Environmental Damage

Environmental impact considerable especially for large

centralized processing plants

The problem being more about the quantity than toxicity

Lowering of oxygen level in waterways

4Source: Peter Kimari, Coffee Conference at Kimathi University July 2011

Source: Author, 2011; Jan C. Von Enden & Ken C. Calvert

Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions

5Source: Peter Kimari, Coffee Conference at Kimathi University July 2011

Source: EPA, 2011

RANK COUNTRY ANNUAL CO2 EMISSIONS

(Thousand MT)

% GLOBAL TOTAL

1 China 7,031,916 23.33

2 U.S of A 5,461,014 18.11

EU 4,177,817 14.08

3 India 1,742,698 5.78

4 Russia 1,708,653 5.67

98 Kenya 10,392 0.03

TOROTON COFFEE FARMERS’ SUCCESS STORY

Toroton Coffee Farmers Society started in 1991. They did not have formal machines to process their coffee. They used hand-pulpers and processed their coffee without following the laid down environmental guidelines.

The sites where they pulped their coffee was extensively polluted and animal and plants suffered a great deal.

Co-ops are supposed to process and wash their coffee at least 40 meters away from any water body. All Toroton farmers, for lack of an alternative and inherent ignorance, used to wash their coffee right in the middle of the nearby rivers and streams!!

Due to lack of a formal processing station, all farmers used to wash their coffee in this river, polluting it significantly.

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FinallyTechnoServe came to the farmers’

rescue…….sorry, environment’s rescue.

I facilitated the putting together of a business plan for the co-op to get a loan to purchase an environment-

friendly eco-pulper

My team and I encouraged the co-op to go for aninexpensive machine and coffee processing station unlike the

old machines and washing station model

We have encouraged the co-op to plant more coffee seedlings as well as shade tree seedlings

Toroton farmers now have a formal and modern eco-pulper which uses very little water. They use the decomposed coffee pulp as organic fertilizer to improve the coffee production. They have also increased the number of coffee trees per farmer.