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Water stewardship

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September 2026

Challenges & Material Risks Exporters

Colombia’s Hass Avocado Growers Between a Flowering Shock and El Niño: Water, Credit and European Provenance

The 2026 traviesa harvest fell roughly 50–60 percent after rain-disrupted flowering and heat, and El Niño now threatens the November–March main crop. Bogotá has answered with loan rescheduling and water-infrastructure credit; Dutch buyers are specifying indicators. Q3 2026; 92 days to the EUDR clock for large and medium operators, which does not cover avocados.

ColombiaHass avocadoEl NiñoIrrigation
Best Practices & Agro-Ecology Cooperatives

Italy’s Early Harvest: Heat and Drought on the Vine Need Regen Practice, Not Only Cellar Stock Maths

Coldiretti and trade desks put Italy’s 2026 grape harvest roughly ten days early under extreme heat, with drought still the yield uncertainty. Science on Italian vines shows heat-plus-water stress is measurable. Stewardship is whether independent growers hold water and canopy ledgers — or whether offtake captures “climate wine” language while the hectare absorbs the stress.

ItalyWineDroughtRegenerative agriculture
Challenges & Material Risks Exporters

El Niño on the Berry and Hass Hectare: Peru’s High-Value Fruit Needs Water Files Growers Still Control

Proarándanos cut the 2026/27 blueberry export curve to roughly 382,000 tonnes as El Niño hit mid- and late-season productivity. ProHass reports heat-driven size loss and fruit drop on Hass avocado in the same climate year. Stewardship is whether irrigation, plot and quality files stay with Peruvian producers — or travel only as offtaker assurance.

PeruBlueberriesHass avocadoEl Niño

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