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Climate Solutions for the Future of Coffee

Civil Eats

Underpaid pickers don’t show up, and coffee cherries rot on the ground, wasting the harvest. Some harvests last for six months instead of the standard two, and some are shockingly short. Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed.

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Coffee as we know it is in danger. Can we breed a better cup?

Agritecture Blog

Workers dump harvested coffee cherries into a truck on a farm in Brazil on June 2. Our reliance on just two coffee species to brew the drink we love could threaten the future of this delicious beverage. Our reliance on just two coffee species to brew the drink we love could threaten the future of this delicious beverage.

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