Resources

We develop global tools and resources to support farmers, technicians, breeders, roasters, and policymakers to drive impact at scale for millions of farmers.

About World Coffee Research

Learn about WCR’s mission and work

Sensory Lexicon

A tool for understanding and measuring coffee’s flavors and aromas.

Coffee varieties catalog

An interactive website exploring Arabica and Robusta varieties

Strategy 2021–2025

Enhancing country competitiveness to bolster origin diversity

The Shade Catalog

Empowering agroforestry with a catalog of tree species for Indonesian and Peruvian coffee landscapes

Road map for prioritized investment in Uganda coffee R&D & seed systems

Key priorities for advancing coffee productivity and profitability in Uganda in alignment with national goals

Annual Report 2024

Creating the future of coffee

Annual Report 2023

Forging the future of coffee

Quality Assurance in the Coffee Seed Sector

Technical Report on Seed Sources in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Peru

CheckCAFE Participating Nurseries

A list of nurseries participating in CheckCAFE, a training program for established commercial nurseries to produce DNA-verifiable arabica varieties

Genetically confirmed seed lots

A list of seed lots in the Latin American region confirmed to be producing DNA-verified arabica varieties

Opportunities for robusta variety innovation

Examining current and future trends for robusta supply and demand, as well as existing resources for genetic improvement

Robusta Clonal Coffee Nursery Management: Supporting Videos

Series supporting the UCDA’s “Clonal Robusta Coffee Nursery Manual”

Reducing coffee carbon emissions through improved varieties

A critical pathway for slowing emissions growth

Potato taste defect

Review of the impacts of the Antestia bug and ongoing mitigation efforts

Arabica and Robusta Coffee Varieties Poster

A visualization of the genetic relationships between coffee varieties from the WCR Coffee Varieties Catalog

Coffea arabica KASP genetic markers for low-density genotyping

An open-access resource for building rapid coffee variety identification services using SNP markers

Global Coffea Arabica Genetic Improvement Research Priorities, 2023

Identifying the top needs of the global coffee breeding community

Webinar: The Number—Measuring Coffee's Investment Gap

Overview and discussion of Dr. Mywish Maredia’s economic analysis

Coffee's innovation crisis

Determining the size of the agricultural R&D investment gap for coffee amid growing consumer demand and the climate crisis

The Future of Robusta Quality

Considerations for Genetic Improvement

Annual Report 2022

Ensuring the future of coffee

Grafting Robusta

Nursery training manual and best practices guide

Webinar: Innovea—How It Works

An overview of our global arabica breeding network

Webinar: International Multi-location Variety Trial Initial Global Results

Report-out of the program’s initial results

Good Practice Guides: Supporting Videos

Series supporting guides on practices for successful coffee seed production and nursery management

Annual Report 2021

Ensuring the future of coffee

Is producing more coffee good or bad for farmers?

New research on the price/yield paradox

Carbon Accounting for Coffee-Based Farming Systems

A review of current tools

Webinar: Final Four—F1 Hybrids Trial Update

An update on the program’s progress and its latest milestone

Rethinking Carbon Accounting

With World Food Prize winner, Rattan Lal

Coffea Arabica Genome

The first fully open-access genome sequence for Arabica coffee

Guide to Running a Profitable Seed and Nursery Business

Guía para la Administracion Rentable del Negocio de Semillas y Viveros de Café

Good Practice Guide: Coffee Nursery Management

Guía de Buenas Practicas en el Manejo de Vivero de Café

Global Consultation 2020

Coffee agricultural R&D awareness and priorities

Good Practice Guide: Seed Producers

Guía de Buenas Practicas de Producción de Semilla de Café

Prevention and Control of Coffee Leaf Rust

Prevención y control de la roya del café

Multiclass Classification of Agro-Ecological Zones for Arabica Coffee

Peer-reviewed paper in the journal PLOS ONE

Healthy, Productive and Environmentally Friendly Coffee Farms

Cafetales sanos, productivos y ambientalmente amigables

Global Coffee Conservation Strategy

Creating a global system to save coffee

WCR: The first five years 2012-2017

A strong foundation for global coffee R&D

Annual Report 2020

Ensuring the future of coffee

La epidemia roya del cafe

Virtuous Agriculture

With Andrea Illy and Rattan Lal

A New Way to Think about Climate Change

Rust: A history

Agricultural R&D—Impact at Scale

How agricultural R&D and variety improvement deliver livelihood improvement at scale

Unlocking Sustainability's Collaborative Advantage

In a world of entropy

Annual Report 2019

Creating the future of coffee

Annual Report 2018

Creating the future of coffee

Annual Report 2017

Creating the future of coffee

Annual Report 2016

In 2016, our fifth year, World Coffee Research delivered results that address coffee’s most pressing problems

Annual Report 2015

In 2015, World Coffee Research completed projects that will be transformative for the future of coffee

African Coffee Renaissance Summit Proceedings

Reinvigorating Africa’s coffee sector, October 2015