Coffee Leaf Rust: The Race Against Time
Coffee Leaf Rust: An Existential Threat? In 2012 the Royal Botanic Kew Gardens in London released a ground-breaking study that used computer modelling to predict how climate change would impact the future of wild Arabica coffee plants. The bleak findings shared that if trends continue Arabica coffee could be extinct in 70 years. Headlines proclaiming coffee’s possible extinction in 2050 appeared in multiple media channels throughout the world and continues to pick up interest today. Coffee was on the endangered Read More [...]