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Tim Schilling celebrated for his contribution to Rwandan coffee
On July 17, World Coffee Research CEO Tim Schilling received an award from RWASHOSCCO, a cooperative export business in Rwanda at an event celebrating their 10th anniversary. Before founding WCR, Tim led the PEARL and SPREAD projects in Rwanda, which helped the country transition from producing nearly 0% specialty coffee to 98% today.
World Coffee Research launches first-ever coffee variety catalog
World Coffee Research has released “Coffee Varieties of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean,” a first-of-its-kind catalog of arabica coffee varieties designed for use by coffee farmers. The catalog is available for free in English and Spanish (“Las Variedades de Café de Mesoamérica y el Caribe”) either in a 47-page PDF version available for free download or through an interactive website. The nonprofit WCR also plans to distribute the catalog to thousands of coffee farmers through national coffee institutions, exporters, cooperatives and nurseries that supply coffee plants and seeds.
World Coffee Research announces Central American regional headquarters in El Salvador
At a national cup tasting event held today in El Salvador, World Coffee Research announced that it will establish a regional headquarters office in the country. El Salvador was hit especially hard by an epidemic of a coffee disease called coffee leaf rust, or la roya, that ravaged Central America starting in 2012. World Coffee Research is already conducting multiple research projects in El Salvador and runs a seven-hectare research farm near Santa Ana, El Salvador.
Annual report now available in Spanish / Informe anual ahora disponible en español
World Coffee Research is pleased to announce that our 2015 annual report is now available in Spanish / World Coffee Research se complace en anunciar que nuestro informe anual de 2015 ya está disponible en español.
Join us in Dublin
Will you be in Dublin for the SCAE World of Coffee? We will, too. There will be a number of opportunities to hear about the work WCR is doing. Please join us or come say hi.