Global coffee drinkers must welcome the news that Sierra Leone has achieved significant progress with a project to re-cultivate a historic local species better adapted to higher temperatures than climate-vulnerable Arabica, the main source for commercial coffee. Lost from cultivation for more than half a century, stenophylla coffee, or Coffea stenophylla, its scientific name, has been grown successfully at a pilot project in the east of the country following its rediscovery in the wild. It took a five-year-long search by a Sierra Leonean forestry expert, a sort of botanical Indiana…
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