ASIC 2025

27-30 October 2025 - Lisbon - Portugal

Bandeau - ASIC 2025

Friday 31 October

* Western European Time (WET)
Time*

Keynote lecturer & Oral presentations

08:00-10:00

SESSION 13

T2 - COFFEE PLANT SCIENCES-AGRONOMY: Canephora

T4 - COFFEE QUALITY

Chairs: TBC

08:00-08:45
  • S13-KN - The Science Behind Coffea Canephora: microbiome, chemistry and quality
    Lucas LOUZADA PERREIRA (Mió Institute, Brazil)

Oral presentations

08:45-09:00
  • S13-O.01 - Coffea Canephora: Plan for a Global Breeding Network
    Tania HUMPHREY (World Coffee Research, Kampala, Uganda)
09:00-09:15
  • S13-O.02 - Grafting for profitability and economic resilience in Robusta coffee farming in Vietnam
    Pham THUYEN THI (Department of food and resource economics, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark)
09:15-09:30
  • S13-O.03 - Harnessing Uganda’s Genetic Diversity of Coffea canephora to Accelerate Selection for Breeding Drought Tolerance
    Ali MILTON (Coffee and Cocoa Variety Improvement Programme, National Coffee Research Institute, Kituza, Mukono, Uganda)
09:30-09:45
  • S13-O.04 - The Coffee Tree Platform: A Centralized Resource for Coffee Variety Data
    Nabila AZRAINI (Coffee Development Team, Nestle Nespresso SA, Romont, Switzerland)
09:45-10:00
  • S13-O.05 - Towards commercialization of Coffee tissue culture technology in India - Success of a Public - Private - Partnership (PPP) initiative
    Patil ANIL B (Tissue Culture R & D, Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd., Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India)

10:00-10:30

Break


Oral presentations

10:30-12:00

SESSION 14

T2 - COFFEE PLANT SCIENCES-AGRONOMY: Agro-economy

Chairs: TBC

Oral presentations

10:30-10:45
  • S14-O.01 - Improving returns to labour investment: a path to living income and future-proof production
    Piet VAN ASTEN (OFI (Olam Food Ingredients), Amsterdam, Netherlands)
10:45-11:00
  • S14-O.02 - The Azores Coffee Project: Pioneering Sustainable Coffee Cultivation in Europe
    Carla RODRIGUES (Sustainability, Grupo Nabeiro - Delta Cafés, Lisboa, Portugal)
11:00-11:15
  • S14-O.03 - Compost-Based Mushroom Cultivation Enhances Glyphosate Remediation in Coffee Plantations
    Yuwei HU (Centre for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China)
11:15-11:30
  • S14-O.04 - Testing F1 coffee hybrids (Coffea arabica) under commercial conditions to create alternatives for smallholder farmers in Guatemala and El Salvador
    Juan Carlos HERRERA (Integrated Breeding team, Nestle Institute of Agricultural Sciences, PSC, Tours, France)
11:30-11:45
  • S14-O.05 - The phenomenon of abnormal development and early opening of starlet flowers in Coffea arabica L.: relating climate change to fertility and fruit production
    Gabriel de Campos RUME (Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil)
11:45-12:00
  • S14-O.06 - Segmentation of Coffee Farmers to explore Weather-Indexed Insurance Interest: Socioeconomic and Behavioral Analysis
    Thuan SARZYNSKI (SMS, ECOM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)

12:00-12:30

Closing Session

Chair: Astrid NEHLIG


13:00

Departure to Ajuda Botanical Garden / CIFC