Climate Change and Coffee: Combatting Coffee Rust : vimarsan

Climate Change and Coffee: Combatting Coffee Rust


Carley Willis, IAEA Office of Public Information and Communication
Coffee leaves display symptoms of coffee leaf rust disease at the CIFC in Portugal. (Photo: I. Ingelbrecht/ IAEA)
The coffee industry generates approximately US$ 100 billion per year. But with climate change and the changing weather patterns that come with it, the conditions that were once suitable for coffee plants are deteriorating in many traditional growing areas; in addition, incidence of coffee leaf rust ꟷ a disease that kills coffee trees ꟷ is on the rise.
The IAEA, in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has been working with national experts to alleviate the stress of coffee leaf rust on coffee trees using nuclear techniques. A first for the IAEA, experts are being trained to use plant breeding techniques to develop coffee varieties that are resistant to the fungus that causes coffee leaf rust. This training is part of a five-year Coordinated Research Project where scientists from six countries are conducting research on disease resistant coffee plant varieties.

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