Wednesday, October 24, 2018

“Coffee rust is a hacker. It’s always looking for a new way to get inside the plant.”
– lvaro Gaitán, head of plant pathology at Cenicafé –

Between 1870 and 1890 Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka) lost 90% of it’s coffee crop to “coffee rust” and went from being a leading coffee exporter to a region of abandoned coffee fields. Ceylon eventually repurposed its plantations to become a leading exporter of tea, yet the cycle is poised to happen in other coffee growing regions around the world because coffee rust still has no cure. Click here to read more about coffee rust or click here to read my article about reinventing your organization – because every industry eventually faces their own version of coffee rust.