The Future of Coveted Coffee Beans

For the coffee industry, waiting and drinking tea is not an effective way to counter the omnipresent climate change. Action is needed, and as quickly as possible. Capricious weather has long since reached coffee growing countries, heavy rain and prolonged dry spells have allowed coffee-rust fungus (Hemileia vastatrix) to ravage plantations and destroy entire harvests. It is the most dangerous disease for the coffee plant and the coffee farmers. This sword of Damocles hangs over many developing and emerging countries whose most important export is bulging coffee sacks. In addition, globally coveted beans are subject to constant price fluctuations due to a multitude of factors that are beyond the producers' control. Coffee is one of the world's most heavily traded commodities.