A Feasibility Study of Public Private Partnership in Sustainable Ethiopia's Coffee Quality Improvement Programme (pp 1-19)

The rainforests of the south western Ethiopian highlands are recognised as the birthplace of Coffea arabica. Ethiopia is the only country in the world where Coffea Arabica (L.) can be found in the wild. The forests that once dominated the highlands are considerably diminished during the last decades. This poses a massive threat to the survival of the genetic resources of Coffea Arabica, 99.8% of the genetic diversity of which is in Ethiopia. As a result, the diversity at origin of some 2,000 or more coffee varieties –