The plants that provide most of the world's coffee supply emerged around 600,000 to 1 million years ago when two other species of coffee cross-pollinated in the forests of Ethiopia, scientists ...

Coffee’s story starts in the lush highlands of Ethiopia, the natural homeland of the delicate Coffea arabica plant. Although they are called “coffee beans”, the plant is not a legume ...

They started by culturing coffee plant cells, and then planted them in ... And the Bean Belt, which stretches from Ethiopia to South America to Southeast Asia is getting too hot.