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Nov 19, 2021 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
For our #WeekendRead, we recently published a story on coffee in South Sudan:
"A coffee treasure found, and potentially lost again" worldcoffeeresearch.org/news/coffee-tr…
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A new research paper confirms that South Sudan is a center of evolutionary origin for Coffea arabica, and the plant populations in the area possess unique genetic diversity. The open-access paper can be found here: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
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Nov 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
🚨Just Published🚨
A white paper by @lal_rattan & @acharyaumesh7 on: "Carbon Accounting for Coffee-Based Farming Systems"
This paper provides guidelines for rethinking coffee carbon accounting and synthesizes current information on the topic.
Read More: worldcoffeeresearch.org/work/carbon-ac…@lal_rattan@acharyaumesh7 There are limited studies on the carbon footprint (CFP) of coffee. The published literature demonstrates that coffee production (even with shade & organic systems) produces net carbon emissions. However, CFP ranges vary widely due to the use of different methodologies and tools.
Apr 8, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Another installment of Lessons from Plant Pandemics 🦠 //thread
The first ingredient in any epidemic? The pathogen. Coffee leaf rust is a dastardly disease of coffee caused by a fungus. Read more about it over at @apsapsnet.org/edcenter/disan…
Oct 1, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A few highlights from the epic new report from the Columbia Center of Sustainable Investment: "Achieving Sustainable Development in the Coffee Sector" (thread)
