CafeClima

Ready to grow the future?

• CafeClima is a science-based data platform for climate action. CafeClima is a free web platform that integrates the world’s largest dataset on coffee variety performance with advanced climate modeling to help farmers and funders make data-driven replanting decisions.
• View insights on which varieties are well-adapted to your local conditions, now and in the future. Select your location and access results from trial sites with similar climates. Discover which varieties stand out and how your local variety compares.
• De-risking a $4 billion investment gap. Billions of coffee trees that can endure the climates of the future need to be planted today.  Science-based tools like CafeClima can help reduce the risk of urgently required renovation investment.
• Protecting farmer productivity for the long term. By identifying which specific varieties are most likely to thrive in future environments, the tool helps farmers secure their productivity for the next 20 years and avoid the devastating lost time and capital of planting the wrong trees.

What is CafeClima?

The platform is powered by the  International Multi-Location Variety Trial (IMLVT), a global research initiative led by WCR in partnership with national coffee institutes in 18 countries. The platform includes performance data on 26 of the world’s top-performing varieties across a diverse range of climatic conditions. The unique variety performance data is paired with advanced climate projections from the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT. By linking variety performance data with climate models, CafeClima enables users to visualize not just where coffee may grow in 2050, but which specific varieties are most likely to thrive in those future environments. The tool identifies 'climate analogs'—current locations that mirror what a specific region's climate will look like in 2050—and offers an estimate of the potential success of a variety based on patterns identified within the ILMVT data.