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Grafting coffee for sustainability: Improving productivity, plant vigour and soil microbiome
02/05/2024
Coffee is one of the most important traded tropical commodities globally, contributing significantly to the livelihood of millions of smallholder farmers worldwide. The coffee plant is frequently susceptible to biotic and abiotic stressors, including the cumulative pressure of climate change, affecting both bean yields and quality. Increasing pest and disease pressure and changing weather patterns, including extreme temperatures, abnormal precipitation (drought, flooding), and water scarcity, are putting the future of the coffee sector at risk, especially as most smallholder farmers depend on rain-fed agriculture. As part of developing adaptation strategies for farmers and building coffee farming systems that are resilient to climate change, as well as economically and environmentally sound, there is a need to develop plant material that is more resistant to biotic/abiotic stresses. The use of grafted plants on stress-tolerant rootstocks has been recommended as an effective and sustainable strategy for coffee crops to cope with climate change. This chapter provides an overview of grafting in coffee and its importance for productivity and health under environmental stresses, and connects grafting with recent advances in soil microbiome interactions. This chapter emphasises the important role of grafting in the development of new adaptive strategies to enhance resilience and mitigate climate change effects on coffee.
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Advancing cocoa genetics in Nicaragua
29/03/2024
In Nicaragua, CIRAD, Nicafrance Foundation, Nestlé, UNAN Matagalpa, and local farmers collaborate to create a diverse cocoa population with carefully selected genetic traits, for further use as rootstock. Precise pollination and grafting techniques were used, leading to a 60% success rate in grafting, with plants transferred to fields with various sun exposure and fertilizer levels. The plants will be further monitored for health and root traits using machine learning.
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Menacé, le café peut-il se réinventer ?
26/03/2024
De vastes surfaces cultivées pour le café sont menacées par le réchauffement climatique. Innovations, nouvelles variétés ou espèces… sur le terrain, agriculteurs et scientifiques préparent déjà l'avenir. Explications en vidéo.
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25/03/2024
Ever wondered what our Mariana hybrid really is and where it comes from?
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How climate risk management and insurance can help coffee producers
21/03/2024
The coffee industry is well aware of the impact of climate change on production in the Bean Belt. Over the last few decades, we have seen that climate change has led to an increase in average global temperatures and a change in rainfall patterns around the world, which naturally has a considerable impact on production and on the people who work in the sector.
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16/03/2024
Bolero project partner, Institute of Development Studies (IDS in England) held a workshop on ABS related to exchanges of genetic materials related to coffee and cocoa of Ivorian and Cameroonian origin. The workshop explored existing regulations related to ABS, in particular the Nagoya Protocol and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). Its main aims were to discuss and find ways of achieving fairer and more equitable outcomes regarding ABS.
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Interest in coffee & health is rising – what do consumers need to know?
30/01/2024
There is a wealth of scientific research available about the many health benefits of coffee – as well as the undesirable side effects of drinking too much. But like all fields of science, research about the impact of drinking coffee on human health is ever-changing as we uncover new findings.
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20/01/2024
The visit by the French ambassador to CIRAD in Nicaragua, Ms Sonia Doña Pérez, on 27 and 28 December, 2023, provided an opportunity to learn more about the system set up in 2003 with the private group ECOM https://www.ecomtrading.com (known as Exportadora Atlantic in Nicaragua), which is Nicaragua's 2nd largest coffee exporter.
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Key note speaker at the ASIC conference 2023
06/11/2023
Professor Corné Pietersen of Utrecht University, WP2 leader in BOLERO project, gave a key note speaker on 'root microbia and induced systemic resistance" at the ASIC conference. He presented the main objectives of BOLERO project.
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Bolero - General Assembly 12-13th June 2024 in Utrecht - The Netherlands
06/11/2023
The General Assembly of the BOLERO project will be held on Wednesday 12 and Tuesday 13 June 2024 at Utrecht University.
