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- France.tv broadcasted on chanel 5, the program « Doc du Dimanche : Café, le nouvel or noir ? » (52 min.) on September 29 2019 and remains available on line until October 6th: https://www.france.tv/france-5/le-doc-du-dimanche/1070497-cafe-le-nouvel-or-noir.html This documentary shows the worldwide importance of the coffee value chain: the first agricultural resource, and the increasing importance of the market of specialty coffees tasted like great wine grand crus but with a often not fair distribution of profits for growers. This documentary also warns the general public on the risk to see Arabica crop disappear from some mountain regions because of the multiple effects of climate change with potentially significant negative effects because of its socioeconomic importance and the environmental service provision when grown under agroforestry. In this regard, this documentary presents the CoffeeAdapt team works for creating new Arabica varieties resilient to abiotic and biotic stresses induced by climate change .
- Midi Libre published an interview of Hervé Etienne on September 24 2019 about the strategy of CoffeeAdapt for creating coffee varieties adapted to agroforestry and resilient to abiotic stresses due to climate change : https://www.midilibre.fr/2019/09/24/montpellier-herve-etienne-veut-creer-un-cafe-resistant-au-changement-climatique,8434051.php
- A team of Radio-Canada filmed the activities of two CoffeAdapt scientists: Jean-Christophe Breitler and Luc Villain, in the field and in the labs of the local Partner, Instituto de Ecologia , at Xalapa, Veracruz in Mexico . The documentary address risk to Arabica crop in Mexico because of climatic disturbances already observed for a number of years in this region and the CoffeeAdapt research activities for creating Arabica F1 hybrid varieties resilient to abiotic and biotic stresses due to climate change : https://ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/la-semaine-verte/site/episodes/432599/cafe-changement-climatique-penurie-foin-secheresse-wwoof-travailleurs-agricultures
- Press releasesLe Temps (2017/12/27), a Swiss media: Comment sauver le goût du café?Le réchauffement climatique n’épargne par les caféiers. Comment adapter ces arbustes fragiles au changement tout en préservant les arômes de la boisson? La création de nouvelles variétés constitue une partie de la réponse https://www.letemps.ch/sciences/sauver-gout-cafe
- Climate change is threatening Europe’s coffee supplies, but the impacts could be diluted by planting the crops amongst trees - a technique known as agroforestry, which is also being revived in European farming. https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/forest-plantations-are-potent-blend-coffee-production.html
- Breedcafs: a new EUfunded project for a sustainable coffee sector,https://www.comunicaffe.com/breedcafs-a-new-eu-funded-project-for-a-sustainable-coffee-sector/
- The future, it seems, belongs to new-generation of hybrids that are created from two genetically distant Arabica varieties and are more vigorous than their parent plants.Worldcrunch (2018/01/24): Your Beloved Coffee Is Just Another Endangered Species, https://www.worldcrunch.com/food-travel/your-beloved-coffee-is-just-another-endangered-species
- As climate change and rising temperatures threaten the cultivation of coffee, scientists are looking into ways to minimise the impact on crop productionGulf News (2018/01/30): Imagine a world without coffee breaks, https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/imagine-a-world-without-coffee-breaks-1.2165760
- In Nicaragua a group of 20 women is following a long term training for the reproduction of coffee hybrid and forest plants with the technique of rooted cutting.SNV starts BREEDCAFS in Nicaragua http://www.snv.org/update/press-release-project-breedcafs-nicaragua-advances
- BREEDCAFS (H2020): Development of new BREEDing strategies for Coffee trees under current and future climates and addressing sustainability issue (AgroForestry Systems) (2017/09/26) https://fr.slideshare.net/agroforestry/breedcafs-h2020-development-of-new-breeding-strategies-for-coffee-trees-under-current-and-future-climates-and-addressing-sustainability-issue-agroforestry-systems-80157269
- Aujourd’hui, le cours de l’arabica est très bas, donc moins rémunérateur. La faute au Brésil, dont la production record tire les prix à la baisse. «On a l’impression d’avoir du café par-dessus la tête et que ça va continuer. Mais à l’avenir, la tasse de café coûtera beaucoup plus cher», avertit Benoît Bertrand.Libération, a French National journal : trois cultures au défi du changement climatique (2018/12/12), https://www.liberation.fr/apps/2018/12/agriculture-et-climat/ and Climat : le café obligé de se cacher de la chaleur (2018/12/25)and https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2018/12/25/climat-le-cafe-obligede-se-cacher-de-la-chaleur_1699706
- An indispensable book to understand the coffee worldWhere the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud https://books.google.fr/books?id=vE4kDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Where+the+Wild+Coffee+Grows:+The+Untold+Story+of+Coffee+from+the+Cloud&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivu9CNh7zhAhX8AGMBHabIAS4Q6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=Where%20the%20Wild%20Coffee%20Grows%3A%20The%20Untold%20Story%20of%20Coffee%20from%20the%20Cloud&f=false
- What has driven tens of thousands of Salvadorans to leave home, many for the U.S.? El Salvador’s coffee beans suffered a devastating disease five years ago, and now face an even greater existential threat: climate change. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on how researchers there are trying to develop a plant that can adapt to warming global temperatures. https://undertoldstories.stthomas.edu/the-race-to-develop-coffee-that-can-survive-climate-change/
- « Lorsque l'on détruit les forêts, on crée des déserts. Cela condamne la plante à être cultivée en plein soleil, avec plus d'engrais et de pesticides qui détruisent les sols » , https://tours.maville.com/actu/actudet_-changement-climatique.-le-cafe-pourrait-il-devenir-un-produit-rare-_fil-3235654_actu.Htm
- While not new to breeding of other crops, leveraging heterosis is a relatively new approach to coffee simply because it has generally been neglected in the science and genetics arena. http://gcrmag.com/technology/view/the-hybrid-vigour-phenomenon A global project called Breedcafs is studying how trees behave in coffee farms, hoping to find crop varieties that manage to grow under the canopy shade.
- Coffee grows naturally in such forests, so replicating that in farms is taking the crop back to its roots. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190304-how-do-you-bring-a-forest-back-to-life
- L'agroforesterie est une voie d'adaptation de la production caféière au changement climatique, mais peu de variétés lui sont adaptées…
- The coffee bean is a bit like the banana. As with the Cavendish, the banana variety found on most of the world’s supermarket shelves, the genetic diversity of the arabica coffee bean, the highest quality bean, is very low.
- Le goût du terroir https://www.slate.fr/story/86885/francais-mauvais-cafe-causes
- CENTROAMERICANO, a new variety of coffee plant, hasn’t sparked the buzz of, say, Starbucks’s latest novelty latte. But it may be the coolest thing in brewing: a tree that can withstand the effects of climate change. Climate change could spell disaster for coffee, a crop that requires specific temperatures to flourish and that is highly sensitive to a range of pests. So scientists are racing to develop more tenacious strains of one of the world’s most beloved beverages. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/business/the-race-to-save-coffee/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b902d22bd283
