The dust looks like rust on a piece of steel, and that is how it got its name: The plants are infected with coffee-leaf rust, a devastating fungus. Gabriel recognized the problem as soon as he saw it.

A recent study suggests coffee prices will soon rise due to socioeconomic effects from the pandemic and a possible coffee leaf rust epidemic. Skip to content. WFLA.

And that's a problem, because it leaves the world's coffee supply vulnerable to shocks like climate change, or the leaf rust currently ravaging Latin American coffee farms. The Salt What's On Your ...

For the last 11 years, Kona coffee farmers have been engaged in a kind of trial run for coffee leaf rust. In 2010, a tiny invasive beetle called the coffee berry borer (CBB), the most destructive ...

Starting in the 2011-12 growing season, a powdery orange fungus called coffee leaf rust spread like wildfire throughout Latin America and Central America, damaging crops on 70% of farms and causing ...

Fighting leaf rust With arabica coffee, there is an “urgent need” to develop more climate-resistant varieties, said Miguel Gomez, a food marketing professor at Cornell’s Dyson School of ...

Coffee leaf rust has long been the enemy of coffee growers, but a snail from Southeast Asia may give them hope. By Maria Cramer It’s not exactly what you want to think about when you’re ...

Coffee leaf rust was confirmed in Kilauea, Kauai on July 9 at a commercial coffee grower. Officials said the fungus had been on the island for at least six months.

Effects from the pandemic could force the coffee industry into “severe production crisis.” ...

Epidemics of coffee leaf rust, a severe fungal disease in plants, have been linked to reduced crop care and investment in coffee farms, according to the study. They occurred after the 2008 global ...

A recent study suggests coffee prices will soon rise due to socioeconomic effects from the pandemic and a possible coffee leaf rust epidemic. The Rutgers University-led study was published in the ...

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