California-Based The Rogers Family Company Launches Initiative to Combat Coffee Disease

The Lincoln, California-based The Rogers Family Company and their green coffee buyer Pete Rogers decided to combat this, establishing the "Rust Trust" project, which aims to plant 50 million trees in numerous regions by 2016 to replace those lost to Roya.

Coffee Crop Disease, Spurred by Climate Change, Threatens Latin America's Economic Foundation

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson
Coffee is one of Latin America's major exports, sustaining independent farmers in rural areas as well as corporate bankers in metropolitan areas. But changing climate patterns have exaggerated plagues and droughts in the region, and this has produced less than desirable conditions for coffee production.

USAID to Spend Millions Studying Coffee Rust Fungus Epidemic in Latin America, Outbreak Could Affect American Security

By Scharon Harding
The United States will help Central American farmers fight coffee rust, a persistent fungus that has the potential to increase both coffee prices and crime rates.
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