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Beck Flavors annouces commitment
The flavor company becomes the latest institution to partner with WCR
2017 Annual Report
Using advances in agricultural science, it is possible to dramatically improve coffee yields, coffee quality, climate resilience, and farmer livelihoods. Our globe-spanning research is designed to deliver higher-quality coffee, more productive coffee farmers, and higher profits for coffee farmers. Our new Annual Report details our efforts in these areas in 2017.
EFICO Group to support World Coffee Research
The EFICO Group has announced a US$90,000 contribution to World Coffee Research.
This commitment supports the industry-backed, nonprofit R&D organization to bring improved varieties and climate-smart agronomy approaches to farmers via a global network of farmer field trials—called the Global Coffee Monitoring Program—to test which combinations of improved varieties and climate-smart farming practices deliver the most profit to the farmer.
What is coffee DNA testing and how does it help farmers?
For the last few years, we have been building a genetic database of coffee varieties. Reference samples have been assembled from large collections of coffee plants from research institutions and farms around the world. We began offering an Arabica varieties genetic testing service for coffee producers in 2017. Counter Culture Coffee became one of the first roasting companies to use the service. In this blog post, Counter Culture talks about how they use the service to help their producer partners understand more about the coffee varieties they have planted on their farms.
WCR Welcomes New Molecular Breeder
World Coffee Research is thrilled to welcome Lucile Toniutti, an agronomist specialized in plant breeding, as our new molecular breeder. Toniutti holds a PhD in the ecophysiology and adaptation of plants from Montpellier SupAgro in France.
