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The 11-country effort to breed a tougher coffee tree – Green Cafe Land
Young coffee seedlings in a nursery

World Coffee Research’s Innovea breeding network now runs in 11 countries that together produce 40% of the world’s coffee, and in 2025 it added robusta to a program that began with arabica alone. The first batch of new trees does not reach partner countries until 2027, and evaluating them takes years after that.

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