Bean and gone: Is your morning coffee about to become thing of the past?

Environment Correspondent Padraig Hoare reports on how farmers who grow coffee beans could be facing serious challenges because of extreme weather events

Could you survive without your morning cuppa?

IMAGINE a world where coffee is a luxury in the lifestyles of the rich and famous, where bananas and chocolate bars are a distant memory of the past, but where you could instead lament your sorrows with a bottle of the finest sparkling wine produced in Wexford.

It may sound far-fetched, but with the burgeoning effects of climate change and the ever-insidious diseases that pervade crop growing throughout the world, it is entirely possible, according to scientists.