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>>Actually, coffee is under attack in many areas of the world. "Rust", a fungal blight that has been around for decades is picking up the pace in our warming world.

Umm, that's exactly what the article says?

"Lack of diversity in crops can have disastrous consequences - it makes them more susceptible to disease. And coffee has a foe - coffee leaf rust. The fungus wiped out Sri Lanka's coffee plantations entirely in the late 1800s, and there was a bad outbreak in 2013 in Central America. The coffee grown there had no resistance to the disease - the crop relied on the protection of low temperatures at higher altitudes."



The BBC article primarily focuses on the situation in Ethiopia. I did have a link to a more detailed article covering the entire global "rust" situation, but I seemed to have deleted while editing the comment. Rather than provide the relevant information I've decided to delete my original comment entirely.




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