26 Nov 2018 --- Wild coffee plants and cacao trees are surprisingly poorly protected – that is the assertion from the Columbia-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). New data strongly suggest that international conservation targets for 2020 will not be met, while a new way of measuring plant conservation shows a wide range of wild plants used for food, medicine, shelter, fuel, livestock forage and other valuable purposes are at risk, reports CIAT.
