Supply shocks and climate impacts
How supply shocks and climate change impacts disrupt the global coffee market, influencing availability, pricing, and long-term sustainability.
Future coffee
Open research questions in coffee science
The unresolved questions in coffee science that researchers, baristas, and roasters continue to explore—spanning physics, chemistry, and sensory analysis.
Shade-grown vs full sun systems
This topic explores the differences between shade-grown and full sun coffee cultivation systems, their impact on yield, quality, biodiversity, and long-term 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.
Hybrid development and F1 hybrids
This topic explains how coffee hybrids are developed, the role of F1 hybrids in combining resilience and quality, and their significance for the future of global coffee cultivation.
Castillo and disease resistance breeding
This topic explains the development of the Castillo variety in Colombia, its role in combating coffee leaf rust, and the broader importance of disease resistance breeding in coffee sustainability.