Wake up and smell the coffee: rising food prices show destabilising impact of climate crisis

Arabica coffee beans, orange crops and olive oil are among the foodstuffs affected by climate-induced price increases. Photograph: Enrico Mantegazza/Alamy

Your morning – and afternoon – coffee is the latest staple threatened by climate chaos: the price of quality arabica beans shot to its highest level in almost 50 years last week amid fears of a poor harvest in Brazil.

It follows warnings that orange crops have been wiped out by the catastrophic floods in Valencia, Spain; and the soaring cost of olive oil in recent years, as the southern Mediterranean has sweltered.