WaPost: The Desperate Search for Climate Change Resistant Coffee Plants
Essay by Eric Worrall
Our heroic coffee explorers trekking through remote African wilderness, searching for species which can withstand global warming.
To survive climate change, coffee must embrace new and resilient beans
By Marissa Garcia
June 9, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT
The research team’s task was as lofty as the mountains they scaled in December 2018. Their mission? To find a coffee species not seen for nearly 70 years in Sierra Leone.
The species, though lost to the wild, lived on in textbooks. Daniel Sarmu, a local researcher on the team, had searched from “field to field” for four years. If any peculiar plant caught his eye, he’d collect a sample, hoping it’d be the lost species. But each genetic test came back negative; the search carried onward.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/10/washington-post-desperate-search-for-climate-change-resilient-coffee-beans/
