Coffee At Extreme Origin. Is it possible? - Page 2

#11: Post by **Marshall** » August 30th, 2014, 2:17 am

another_jim wrote:The stakes are high. Specialty coffee is about diversity. And now, it has become about maintaining diversity in the era of climate change. The more quickly and locally distinctive beans and microecologies can be identified, the more localized, lower cost, and widespread the equipment required to do this, the better.

I think you will be interested in the new initiative of World Coffee Research. They are monitoring the effects of growing a single varietal clone in 19 locations on five continents to determine where it might thrive in the warmer climate of the near future. More varieties to follow: http://worldcoffeeresearch.org/2014/08/ ... -in-imlvt/