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New investment focuses on creating high-efficiency molecular breeding tools to reduce the decades-long timeline currently required to deliver new coffee varieties to farmers. This research will identify genetic markers for devastating pests and diseases, including coffee leaf rust, coffee berry disease, coffee fruit rot, and coffee berry borer.

Newly released 2025 annual report provides highlights from the past year, updates on major program areas

UNIDO, JDE Peet’s, The J.M. Smucker Co., and Lavazza Foundation commit €850,000 toward a WCR-led effort to strengthen seed system supply chain resilience in Africa’s largest coffee exporter.

A brief profile on the latest addition to our global team

A free, open-access web tool from World Coffee Research (WCR) and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT equips the coffee sector with actionable predictive insight to identify which coffee varieties are most likely to thrive as climates change, linking the largest real-world dataset on variety performance with advanced climate projections for the first time.