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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.

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.

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.

The Central American coffee leaf rust crisis that began in 2011-2012 exposed a dire lack of good information about best practices for controlling coffee leaf rust. There was no accessible and reliable reference that explained what coffee rust was and how to control it. In order to address this, WCR and USAID teamed up with the Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) in Costa Rica to compile known coffee rust management practices into a condensed, thorough, and accessible manual that can be used by researchers and technicians to make management recommendations to farmers.

Last week, World Coffee Research held its first-ever General Assembly for members at the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) in Atlanta. At the assembly, we launched our 2015 Annual Report and updated members on our collaborative research to ensure the future of coffee.