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A tropical understory shrub from the Ethiopian highlands whose roasted seeds became one of the most traded agricultural commodities on Earth. First cultivated at scale in Yemen, coffee is the livelihood of tens of millions of smallholder farmers across the tropical highlands, and one of the crops most exposed to a warming climate.
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Scientific Name Domestication RegionEthiopian highlands; first widely cultivated in Yemen 1 Domesticated When (Circa)cultivated in Yemen by the 15th century AD 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Cash Crop, Concepts Coffee is a standard example of a globally traded cash crop grown almost entirely for export sale.
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