By the mid-1500s, coffee bushes were being cultivated in the Yemen and for the next hundred years this region produced most of the coffee drunk in Africa and the Arab world.
The kitchen smells like freshly-brewed coffee, made from beans of the Coffea plant, and you grab some avocado toast — a combo of wheat grown to be pest-resistant, spread with the insides of a big, green, buttery berry.
Newbold, from the University College of London, said he sees a " double hit of climate change" affecting the coffee plants themselves, as well as the pollinators they depend on.
However, the beverage remains expensive, as Mocha carefully protects its monopoly by prohibiting the sale of plants or cherries, in order to prevent the cultivation of coffee plants elsewhere in the world.