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Indiana Jones and the search for the perfect bean

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Tim Schilling recorded GPS data.

BOMA, Sudan - Tim Schilling trudges barefoot with a tribe called Nyameron through Africa. He is in search of wild varieties of the Arabica coffee plant from which are made all over the world, lattes and cappuccinos. The agricultural scientists at Texas A & M University, is director of the nonprofit organization World Coffee Research provided by large companies such as Folgers Coffee and Peet's Coffee & funded Tea. He is the Indiana Jones of the coffee industry.

The goal is to expand the tiny gene pool of the global coffee plantations. But in the four days on the plateau west of Ethiopia, the 15 members of Schilling's expedition, no new specimens have been found. They had hoped for help from Nyameron, an expert on wild varieties of coffee, they have taken by a tribal chief of Murle.

Companies have expanded their search for new varieties in order to secure its supply in the future. The production has remained the same. But the demand for coffee has increased. That is why the coffee prices have quadrupled since 2001.

The yield has been declining since 2005
Last year have been consumed in the world 17.6 billion pounds of coffee beans. 1982 there were 2.6 billion, reports the U.S. Department of Agriculture. However, production in Colombia, where they come from ten percent of the world's Arabica beans has dropped by 36 percent since 2005. The yield of the largest producers of arabica Brazil varies considerably in recent years.

Are the problems in coffee growing, there are many reasons, experts say: Among climate changes in the growing areas and the population growth in Central America, so many coffee plantations were turned into construction sites.

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