So what can we do about this? Drink less coffee?

What the research group from Great Britain is trying to do is to recreate the Arabica plant and make it more sustainable by creating a more durable plant. To understand this, let's rewind the band by about 15,000 years, when Arabica came into existence. It is quite a coincidence that Arabica came into existence at all. The Arabica plant is a hybrid between two different coffee plants, C eugenioides and C canephora, which have mated. This mating has only taken place once during these 15,000 years and has therefore only left us with one species of Arabica.

What the researchers will do now is find more durable varieties of these plants that once mated. Then you should try to pair these more durable varieties to get a more durable Arabia plant. It is important for you as a reader to understand that this is not some form of GMO, but only traditional crop and that this can take decades to implement.

In fact, the process of pairing the coffees that created Arabica has already begun and we at Caféskolan are waiting with excitement to see what they come up with, even though it may take decades.