The second is to provide assistance to the private and public sectors in how to multiply the best varieties and make them available to producers.
While this is being done, coffee production trend data will be collected, including socio-economic variables that would be paramount in preventing future biological disasters such as the rust epidemic.
This third effort will allow a comprehensive analysis of the viability of smallholder coffee in Central America for use by industry and government planning.
The final two priorities involve safeguarding coffee by creating a pipeline of readily available, high-quality, pest-resistant genetic material to advance the best varieties to farmer evaluation and eventual commercialization, and supporting a multi-stakeholder effort to create a high-tech breeding program to provide the highest level of quality-tailored, adapted, climate resilient, and pest resistant ‘breeding’ blocks.
