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Interview: How climate change will impact coffee

Laboratory Equipment, news on the latest new products and technologies for the lab, had featured Aaron Davis as the Scientist of the Week in last week's edition. Aaron Davis, from  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and a team found that  coffee in the wild may go extinct in 70 years . The team’s paper can be accessed  here . By Lily Barback Laboratory Equipment Published November 29, 2012 Q: What made you interested in studying how climate change will impact coffee? A:   Various information sources, including anecdotal information from coffee farmers, report that coffee production is being negatively influenced by (accelerated) climate change. However, precise modeling of the influence of climate change on coffee is limited, and there is no data available for indigenous coffee species. Arabica coffee is the most important species for coffee production, and yet it is potentially threatened with extinction in the wild (without factoring-in climate c...