Supply shocks and climate impacts
How supply shocks and climate change impacts disrupt the global coffee market, influencing availability, pricing, and long-term sustainability.
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Colonialism and Coffee: How European Powers Shaped Global Coffee Production
Explore the complex relationship between colonialism and coffee production. Learn how European colonial powers established coffee plantations, controlled trade routes, and created lasting impacts on coffee-producing regions that persist today.
Major pests: coffee leaf rust, berry borer
This topic introduces the two most destructive coffee pests worldwide—coffee leaf rust (CLR) and coffee berry borer (CBB)—their biology, symptoms, and management strategies.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
This topic explains Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in coffee farming—an ecologically based approach that combines cultural, biological, and chemical methods to control pests while minimizing environmental impact.
Climate variability and risk
This topic explores how climate variability and long-term climate change affect coffee production, the risks farmers face, and the strategies being developed to adapt and ensure sustainability.
Breeding goals: quality, yield, resilience
This topic explains the main goals of modern coffee breeding—improving cup quality, increasing yield, and enhancing resilience—and how these often competing priorities shape the future of coffee.