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West Africa: 'Rediscovered' Coffee Could Boost Farmers' Livelihoods
SciDev.Net, 10 May 2021
Scientists have rediscovered rare wild coffee species in West Africa with tolerance to high temperatures and fine taste, potentially setting the region on course to staging a… Read more »
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West Africa: Climate Change Threatens Coffee - but a Delicious Wild Species Could Help
The Conversation Africa, 19 April 2021
The world loves coffee. More precisely, it loves arabica coffee. From the smell of its freshly ground beans through to the very last sip, arabica is a sensory delight. Read more »
Delicious Wild Species Plant Could Help Save Your Morning Brew!
Scientists say a "forgotten" coffee plant that can grow in warmer conditions could help future-proof the drink against climate change. They predict we could soon be sipping Coffea stenophylla, a rare wild coffee that tastes like high-quality Arabica coffee. Coffea stenophylla is a wild coffee species from West Africa which, until recently, was thought to be extinct outside Cote d'Ivoire. The plant was recently re-discovered growing wild in Sierra Leone, where it was historically grown as a coffee crop about a century ago. With stenophylla's rediscovery, the future of coffee just got a little brighter.
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With Tanzania being Africa's fourth-largest coffee producer, agricultural marketing cooperative societies are planning to open three coffee processing factories in Shinyanga, ... Read more »
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Rwanda, an east African country smaller than Belgium, has curbed Covid-19 cases so effectively that Rwandans were among the few people outside the European Union (EU) who were ... Read more »
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Kenya's coffee risks losing its top spot in the world market following its rejection in Japan and South Korea due to high levels of chemical contamination. The chemical levels of ... Read more »
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Coffee production has decreased from 6,706 tonnes in 2014/15 to 5,882 in 2018/19 due to a decrease in land for cultivation because of population growth which has led to farmers ... Read more »
Coffea stenophylla in the Botanischer Garten, Berlin-Dahlem.
