The industry-led effort formerly known as GCQRI (the Global Coffee Quality Research Initiative) announced yesterday that it has been reborn as WCR (World Coffee Research) and will begin research in select origins this month in service of its mission: To grow the Arabica coffee supply chain in a sustainable way through collaborative agricultural research and development.
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (better known by its Spanish-language acronym CIAT), is a CRS partner on the Borderlands Coffee Project in Colombia and Ecuador and has been named as a WCR Research Partner.
We wish WCR every success in its important work, and will seek opportunities through our mutual collaborations with CIAT to support and advance its agenda and to make the new technologies it develops work for poor smallholder farmers.