Beyond the Gardens: The Forgotten Home of Coffee


Coffee is one of the world’s favourite drinks, one of the most important commercial crop-plants, and the second most valuable international commodity; Arabica coffee is considered to produce the finest coffee beans.

A study conducted by scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in collaboration with scientists in Ethiopia, reports that climate change alone could lead to the extinction of wild Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) well before the end of this century…

Website: https://www.kew.org/

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1 Response to Beyond the Gardens: The Forgotten Home of Coffee

  1. Ethiopian coffee is my absolute favourite! I think it is wider known than the authors anticipated that Ethiopia is the home of coffee.

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