World Coffee Research

2018.05.16 • Press

Hybrids shine at Nicaragua Cup of Excellence

This year’s Cup of Excellence Nicaragua was notable not just for the excellent-quality coffees awarded by the jury, but for the impressive performance of F1 hybrid varieties in the competition. The highest-placing F1 hybrid was Centroamericano, a coffee from farmer Gonzalo Adán Castillo Moreno, which placed second. A new Barista Magazine article delves further into the recent competition and the success of the F1 hybrids, which are a core component of WCR’s coffee breeding strategy.

2018.05.08 • Program Updates

Understanding Farmer’s Relationship with New Plants

In 2017, World Coffee Research and our partner Anacafe distributed seedlings of the new F1 hybrid Centroamericano to 179 farmers in San Pedro Yepocapa, Guatemala, to help the smallholder farmers in the area continue to recover from the effects of coffee leaf rust. A socioeconomic study of the farmers participating in the project seeks to understand the main obstacles they face in producing and selling high-quality coffee.

2018.05.04 • Featured Donor

Beck Flavors annouces commitment

The flavor company becomes the latest institution to partner with WCR

2018.04.19 • WCR News

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.

2018.04.16 • Featured Donor

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.