World Coffee Research launches new data platform for climate action

World Coffee Research (WCR) has launched CafeClima, a new science-based data platform for climate action.

The free web platform, in partnership with the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, integrates the world’s largest dataset on coffee variety performance with advanced climate modelling to help farmers and funders make data-driven replanting decisions.

WCR says CafeClima “equips the coffee sector with actionable, predictive insight to identify which coffee varieties are most likely to thrive as climates change, linking the largest real-world dataset on variety performance with advanced climate projections for the first time”.

The platform, powered by the International Multi-Location Variety Trial (IMLVT) global research initiative, includes performance data on 26 of the world’s top-performing varieties across a diverse range of climatic conditions, featuring frequently cited research on coffee climate suitability. By linking variety performance data with climate models, CafeClima enables users to visualise not just where coffee may grow in 2050, but which specific varieties are most likely to thrive in those future environments.

“The world needs to replace billions of coffee trees. The only thing more costly than inaction is action without insight,” says Dr. Jennifer “Vern” Long, the CEO of World Coffee Research.

“If the industry invests in planting millions of trees today that cannot survive the climate of 2040, we haven’t just lost capital – we’ve lost a crucial decade for coffee sector adaptation.”

For more information on CafeClima, visit cafeclima.worldcoffeeresearch.org