Grist looks at efforts to breed new varietals of arabica coffee that can survive a warming climate.
Inside a new experiment to find the climate-proof coffee of the future
David Ngibuini is a second-generation coffee farmer in Kenya’s central highlands, an area of cool temperatures and rich volcanic soil that’s long been one of the best places to grow coffee on Earth. On an afternoon in May, after a couple of months of rain, his 11-acre plot is lush. Six thousand trees — nearly […]
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