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Why the future depends on agricultural R&D
Fewer farmers, less origin diversity—that is the likely future that coffee faces without significant innovation and investment to support coffee producers around the world to remain profitable and continue farming.
Beyond Heirlooms & Hybrids: Breaking Down the Coffees of Ethiopia & East Africa | Expo Lectures 2018
During SCA’s Lectures during the 2018 Coffee Expo, Hanna Neuschwander moderated a panel about coffees of Ethiopia and East Africa. This panel was released as a podcast by SCA this week. It features the free-flowing conversation with a number of folks who know quite a lot about African varieties: Dr. Benoît Bertrand of CIRAD; Christophe Montagnon of World Coffee Research; Getu Bekele Gedefa of Counter Culture Coffee; Author Jeff Koehler; and Timothy Hill of Counter Culture Coffee.
WCR prepares to enter new era
The board of directors of World Coffee Research has launched an executive search for a new chief executive officer. Dr. Tim Schilling, the founder and outgoing chief executive officer will remain as director of the organization.
Harnessing the power of natural enemies to fight coffee leaf rust
Dr. Robert Weingart Barreto is no stranger to Africa’s wild coffee forests. A professor at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV) in Brazil, he is the lead researcher of a World Coffee Research project that seeks to use biological control (also known as biocontrol) to combat coffee leaf rust, the worst disease in coffee farms around the world.
IMLVT’s first harvests
When World Coffee Research (WCR) formed in 2012, one of the first initiatives the organization launched was the International Multilocation Variety Trial (IMLVT). Each of 24 participating country planted the same 31 varieties. Most of the trial sites were established in 2016, and earlier this month, the first coffee cherries began to arrive. Here, photos of the first harvest at one IMLVT site in Guatemala.
