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The catalog lists the flavor profile for each plant. One makes coffee with notes of melon, honey and sugar cane, while another boasts a citrus, herbal, floral flavor. The catalog also outlines the plant’s growing characteristics, like the altitudes at which it will survive, the plant’s size and structure, and how many years it will take until first production.
“Our rainfalls [have] become more intermittent, and when they come, they’re more severe, which is hard on the plants,” she said. With arabica coffee, there is an “urgent need” to develop more climate-resistant varieties, said Miguel Gomez, a food marketing professor at Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
Firl thinks that in order for coffee to be sustainable, there needs to be a shift away from the industrialized coffee farm model. “We need to bring coffee back to its forest roots,” she said, to promote a healthy ecosystem.to invest in forest protection and restoration and set other climate-related goals. Burns described the company’s breeding program as an “ongoing” process, saying the company will keep trying out new varietals to adapt to climate change.