Extinction risk and threats to plants and fungi

E Nic Lughadha, SP Bachman, TCC Leão… - Plants, People …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

Madagascar's extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use

A Antonelli, RJ Smith, AL Perrigo, A Crottini, J Hackel… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Madagascar's biota is hyperdiverse and includes exceptional levels of endemicity. We
review the current state of knowledge on Madagascar's past and current terrestrial and …

Shaded-coffee: A nature-based strategy for coffee production under climate change? A review

A Koutouleas, T Sarzynski, M Bordeaux… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Coffee is deemed to be a high-risk crop in light of upcoming climate changes. Agroforestry
practices have been proposed as a nature-based strategy for coffee farmers to mitigate and …

Sustainability strategies by companies in the global coffee sector

SL Bager, EF Lambin - Business Strategy and the Environment, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The coffee sector is facing several sustainability challenges. We ask whether addressing
these is transforming the entire coffee sector or rather leading to market differentiation …

The re-emergence of Liberica coffee as a major crop plant

AP Davis, C Kiwuka, A Faruk, MJ Walubiri, J Kalema - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
The failure of Liberica coffee as a global crop plant by the turn of the twentieth century was
due to a number of factors, including the inappropriate selection of material for global …

Vapour pressure deficit determines critical thresholds for global coffee production under climate change

J Kath, A Craparo, Y Fong, V Byrareddy, AP Davis… - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Our understanding of the impact of climate change on global coffee production is largely
based on studies focusing on temperature and precipitation, but other climate indicators …

An Overview of the Mechanisms Involved in Coffee-Hemileia vastatrix Interactions: Plant and Pathogen Perspectives

MC Silva, L Guerra-Guimarães, I Diniz, A Loureiro… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world. It is also one of the most
globally traded commodities. Coffee leaf rust (CLR), caused by the biotrophic fungus …

Not so robust: Robusta coffee production is highly sensitive to temperature

J Kath, VM Byrareddy, A Craparo… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coffea canephora (robusta coffee) is the most heat‐tolerant and 'robust'coffee species and
therefore considered more resistant to climate change than other types of coffee production …

A third of the tropical African flora is potentially threatened with extinction

T Stévart, G Dauby, PP Lowry, A Blach-Overgaard… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Preserving tropical biodiversity is an urgent challenge when faced with the growing needs of
countries. Despite their crucial importance for terrestrial ecosystems, most tropical plant …

A systematic review on the impacts of climate change on coffee agrosystems

C Bilen, D El Chami, V Mereu, A Trabucco, S Marras… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coffee production is fragile, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
reports indicate that climate change (CC) will reduce worldwide yields on average and …