TIME Best Inventions Recognises Global Coffee Program
The Innovea Breeding Network has been identified as one of 300 inventions making the world “smarter, better, and more fun”.
World Coffee Research’s Innovea Global Coffee Breeding Network has been named on the TIME Best Inventions of 2025 list, highlighting its potential to reshape the future of coffee.
- Innovea unites governments across Latin America, Africa, and Asia to collaborate on and accelerate enhancing the genetics of Coffea Arabica and Coffea Canephora (Robusta).
- The 11 partners in the program produce more than 40 per cent of the world’s coffee.
- The goal is to produce more climate-resilient, disease-resilient, higher-yielding, and better-tasting coffee varieties in the face of soaring global demand for coffee products.
Innovea embodies the power of global scientific collaboration
Author's summary: Innovea Breeding Network recognised for innovative coffee program.
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Global Coffee Report — 2025-10-14