Annual Report 2015

In 2015, World Coffee Research completed major projects with results that will be transformative in ensuring the future of coffee. Highlights of our work this year include:

• Advancing the science of coffee flavor with the launch of the World Coffee Research Sensory Lexicon
• Creating the first new varieties in our breeding program, which aims to produce coffee plants that will be disease resistant and have high cup quality and productivity
• Establishing the WCR Core Collection, a group of 100 of the most genetically diverse Coffea arabica coffees from the CATIE germplasm collection, an essential new reservoir
  of genetic diversity for coffee breeders for decades to come
• Publishing a major study that describes the main climates that support coffee cultivation and pinpoints which of these zones is most vulnerable to climate change
• Launching a network of on-farm demonstration trials in Africa and Central America that will bring high-performing varieties into farmer fields and show with hard
  data how they can improve farmer profitability
• Establishing a brand-new WCR research farm in El Salvador, which will become our headquarters in Central America