Coffee Is Not Forever : A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust

Authors

Stuart McCook

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Series

Series in Ecology and History

Description

The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop through a history of one of its most devastating diseases, the coffee leaf rust. He deftly synthesizes agricultural, social, and economic histories with plant genetics and plant pathology to investigate the increasing interdependence of the world’s coffee-producing zones. In the process, he illuminates the progress and prognosis of the challenges—especially climate change—that pose an existential threat to a crop that global consumers often take for granted. And finally, in putting a tropical plant disease at the forefront, he has crafted the first truly global environmental history of coffee, pushing its study and the discipline in bold new directions.

Award: Henry A. Wallace Award

Copyright Statement

Coffee Is Not Forever © 2019 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language

eng

ISBN

9780821446843

Publication Date

10-2-2019

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

plant pandemics; plant diseases, coffee, coffee leaf rust, environmental history

Disciplines

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Ecology | Nature and Society Relations | Physical and Environmental Geography | Plant Pathology

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

McCook, Stuart, "Coffee Is Not Forever : A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust" (2019). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 96.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/96