US EditionClimate change takes spice from Indonesia clove farms
- In 2023, Indonesian clove farmers on islands like Haruku faced sharply reduced yields due to changing weather harming their crops and income.
- This situation results from increased rainfall and more frequent extreme weather caused mainly by burning fossil fuels, altering global and local weather patterns.
- Indonesia, responsible for over two-thirds of global clove production, saw yields fluctuate significantly over two decades, with 2023 yields nearly 25% below the 2010 peak.
- Farmer Jauhar Mahmud, representing 36 growers, said, "It's often unpredictable," while prices plunged from 150,000 rupiah to 80,000 per kilogram before recovering modestly amid dwindling supply.
- These trends suggest worsening economic challenges for clove farmers and urge global spice importers to consider climate issues that threaten the crop's future.
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Climate change takes spice from Indonesia clove farms
Colonial powers once sought to wipe out cloves grown by locals on the eastern Indonesian island of Ternate to safeguard their monopoly over the prized crop. Today farmers say the gravest threat to their plants is climate change.
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