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Major Ag Lender Warns of Arabica Land Losses from Climate Change

One of the world’s largest agricultural lenders issued a stark warning to the coffee industry last week, saying broad areas now used for arabica production could become climatically unsuitable...

2026.04.02

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New CafeClima Platform Supports Climate-Smart Coffee Replanting

World Coffee Research (WCR), along with the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, today announced the launch of CafeClima, a free web platform designed to help farmers, agronomists, funders...

2026.02.12

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Ethiopia Study Identifies Key Variables Affecting Arabica Production

A decade of farm-level data from Ethiopia’s Gedeo Zone suggests coffee quality and yield are not dictated by a single factor such as altitude. Instead, the strongest quality signals...

2026.01.29

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Column: On Balancing the Ideal and the Possible in Coffee Production

The challenges of producing coffee sustainably while maintaining good yields go far beyond financial considerations. While evaluating investments and profits in an unstable market certainly matters, the greater challenge is...

2026.01.20

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Futuristic Earth-Cooling Solution Not Likely to Protect Coffee, Study Finds

A radical climate-engineering solution may not be able to safeguard coffee or other climate-sensitive crops as the planet warms, according to a new study. New research published Nov. 4 in...

2025.11.15

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Column: What the 2025 Brazil Coffee Harvest Can Teach Us About the Future

Another year has passed for coffee in Brazil, and the 2025 crop is now virtually 100% picked, in storage and ready for commercialization. I’d like to take this opportunity to...

2025.11.04

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Report Says Coffee Continues to Erase Brazil’s Forests, Exacerbating Climate Shocks

A new report from the nonprofit Coffee Watch says that modern coffee production in Brazil continues to be a significant driver of deforestation, with hundreds of thousands of hectares...

2025.10.23

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EU Proposes Another 12-Month Delay to EUDR, Cites IT Issues

The European Commission is planning yet another one-year delay to enforcement of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), citing poor development and performance of the Commission’s IT system. The postponement plan...

2025.09.25

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New Research Shows Promise for Stenophylla Breeding

As the climate-sensitive arabica coffee species continues to face long-term existential threats, research from Sierra Leone sheds new light on the breeding potential of another species, stenophylla. Published Aug....

2025.09.11

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Rainforest Alliance Launching Regenerative Agriculture Certification for Coffee

Rainforest Alliance just announced the launch of a new standard and certification for regenerative agriculture in coffee, with a distinct “regenerative” seal expected to land on consumer coffee bags...

2025.09.09

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