{"id":67,"date":"2026-01-07T20:57:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finca-fuentevieja.com\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:27:36","slug":"kaffee-rost-und-zerstoerung","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/finca-fuentevieja.com\/en\/bruch\/kaffee-rost-und-zerstoerung\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Rust and Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"67\" class=\"elementor elementor-67\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5810f76 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5810f76\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0a7e10 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f0a7e10\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f9bd6b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8f9bd6b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Coffee Rust Strikes at the Heart of the Plant<\/h1>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be9ce02 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"be9ce02\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62c398d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"62c398d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Known in Latin America as *La Roya*, coffee rust is a fungal disease considered one of the most devastating threats to coffee cultivation worldwide. It is caused by the fungus *Hemileia vastatrix*, which attacks the leaves of the coffee plant, blocks photosynthesis, and gradually weakens the plant until it produces little to no harvest at all.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41d8e3d e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"41d8e3d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b61dad e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3b61dad\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cc9dd88 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cc9dd88\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">La Roya hit Latin America particularly hard between 2011 and 2014. During this period, rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, and monoculture farming accelerated the explosive spread of the fungus. Entire regions lost their economic foundation within just a few years. In many countries across Central and South America, more than 70\u201390% of coffee plants were damaged or destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-332f612 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"332f612\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Our plantation was not spared either. Within a short period of time, more than 90% of the coffee stock was destroyed. Coffee cultivation, once the foundation of life and income for the land and its people, was no longer economically viable. The plantation was, in effect, on the verge of collapse \u2014 exhausted, devalued, and without any short-term \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043f\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0438\u0432\u0435.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">What remained was damaged land, uncertain livelihoods, and one defining question: do you give up, or do you choose a different path?<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaffeerost trifft die Pflanze im Kern Der sogenannte Kaffeerost, in Lateinamerika meist La Roya genannt, ist eine Pilzerkrankung, die weltweit zu den verheerendsten Bedrohungen des Kaffeeanbaus z\u00e4hlt. Verursacht wird sie durch den Pilz Hemileia vastatrix, der die Bl\u00e4tter der Kaffeepflanze bef\u00e4llt, ihre Photosynthese blockiert und die Pflanze langfristig schw\u00e4cht, bis sie kaum noch oder gar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finca-fuentevieja.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finca-fuentevieja.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finca-fuentevieja.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finca-fuentevieja.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finca-fuentevieja.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/finca-fuentevieja.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/finca-fuentevieja.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/668"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finca-fuentevieja.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finca-fuentevieja.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}