Saving coffee from extinction - BBC NewsTwo billion cups of coffee are drunk around the world every day and 25 million families rely on growing coffee for a living. Over the past 15 years, consumption of the drink has risen by 43% - but researchers are warning that the world's most popular coffee, Arabica, is under threat.
A couple years of research and many trips to Ethiopia. Enjoyed it all. #Coffee #KewEthiopia #KewGIS http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32736366 …
Kews coffee work in Ethiopia is back on the news http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32736366 … #KewEthiopia #Coffee
With baited breath Aaron downloads a year's worth of coffee climate data#KewCoffee #KewGIS pic.twitter.com/TIPevBbUxz- Mini-climatestation, Ashi
- Tinytag recording hourly temperature and humidity
- Tinytag setup
- Coffee Processing - Ashi
...it is then baked into a pancake called a kocho and eaten with hot sauce and honey #KewEthiopia. pic.twitter.com/D4DW0zSP31
...this is then wrapped in the leaves and buried to ferment for up to 3 months... #KewEthiopia pic.twitter.com/Z3UDF7rv4H
Ensete (false banana) used as starch source and a staple food around Dorze. 1st scraped into a paste... #KewEthiopia pic.twitter.com/sW2ofrR4nH
#coffee cherries sun drying nr Chenchaa. Sold and occas. traded 4 potatoes etc. coffeeleaf tea also made #KewEthiopia pic.twitter.com/fKAkGQErnK- We visited a Dorze village to find whether the are able to grow coffee in their gardens. It seems that enset provides a decent amount of shade for the coffee trees as well as being a staple food for the dorze tribes.
Meet our Ethiopian colleague from Addis Uni, Mekbib, lecturer in botany and all round nice chap #KewEthiopia #coffee pic.twitter.com/L67IE3op0d
Ever had Ethiopian #coffee? Likely grown and harvested by people like this coffee farmer and family #KewEthiopia pic.twitter.com/ZxbELtpIt7
Jackpot! We have found wild #coffee. Model predictions come up trumps! #kewscience #kewethiopia pic.twitter.com/4fWWIzxUVZ
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