Long celebrated as a producer of some of the world’s finest high-quality arabica coffees, Ethiopia and its western forests also happen to be a genetic mecca for wild and cultivated arabica coffee.

A new sustainability initiative led by the international nonprofit TechnoServe is attempting to shine a light on those forests in order to both promote and protect them while growing a market for “Ethiopia’s Forest Coffee.”

The first outputs from that effort is a new, free 70-page guidebook called Ethiopia’s Forest Coffee: An Illustrated Guide, along with an interactive online map.

The book follows the notion that Ethiopia’s rich and diverse coffee landscape can also be characterized by fragility, as deforestation and climate change combine to threaten traditional production practices and livelihoods.

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