A rare wild coffee from West Africa ... in more than half a century. Arabica originated in the highlands of Ethiopia and South Sudan and was a cool tropical plant that preferred average annual ...

It was the yellowing label on an ancient jar of coffee beans tucked away in a herbarium that caught the eye of Aaron Davis, a ...

Most of the coffee drunk around the world comes from either arabica or robusta beans ... Many are now turning to excelsa, a rare coffee bean that was only discovered in 1903 in the region that ...

By Marta Zaraska Photographs by Emily Mott Stenophylla is a coffee plant ... heat-and-drought-resistant coffee plant like stenophylla. But certain rare species could be used both to partly ...

The farmer had never grown coffee in her village in western South Sudan, but now hopes a rare, climate-resistant ... well behind the arabica and robusta species that are the most consumed coffees ...

Coffee is a ubiquitous pick-me-up, but climate change is making Arabica coffee plants—which are temperature sensitive—more challenging to grow. And that means coffee could become a liquid luxury.

Coffee’s story starts in the lush highlands of Ethiopia, the natural homeland of the delicate Coffea arabica plant. Although they are called “coffee beans”, the plant is not a legume ...

Arabica and robusta are the two species of plant responsible for most of the world’s coffee. “Arabica is considered superior in flavour to robusta [as] it has ...

Brazil's arabica coffee production is expected to decline significantly by 13.6% to around 38 million bags, Rabobank said, while robusta output is expected to offset some arabica underperformance ...

As climate change puts pressure on supply, new varieties are coming to the fore, says the Financial Times' Anjana Ahuja.