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Will Coffee Survive Climate Change? We Traveled to the World’s Highest Farm to Find Out
In this article for Vice’s Munchies, reported Dan Gentile draws attention to the problems that climate change is creating for the coffee industry. WCR Board member and Intelligentsia Coffee President James McLaughlin comments on the work the industry is doing to support farmers.
WCR to deepen work in Latin America
At the beginning of October, a five-year, $36.4 million initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to build the agricultural sectors of coffee and cacao in five countries—El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and Peru—was announced by the project’s lead implementation partner, the international nonprofit TechnoServe. World Coffee Research is proud to bring its expertise in coffee agricultural R&D to the effort, the Maximizing Opportunities in Coffee and Cacao in the Americas (MOCCA) Project.
The Hidden Struggle to Save the Coffee Industry From Disaster
In this article for Medium, Elizabeth Dunn profiles the group of scientists who are scrambling to head off one unexpected impact of climate change - the death of coffee. The group? It’s World Coffee Research. The article talks about WCR’s inception, our impact since 2012, and our goals for the future.
Get to Know Dr. Cathie Aime, a Leading Researcher of Coffee Leaf Rust
One prominent academic figure helping the fight against coffee leaf rust is Dr. Cathie Aime, a mycologist at Purdue University, who broadly studies the systematics of rust fungi. She is one of the few scientists in the world—and the only one in the United States—who focuses on this area of research.
