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Climate change has increased the humidity of the environment to such a degree in Central America that fungal diseases like LA Roya, or leaf rust, and proliferate. Leaf rust dramatically reduces productivity of farms, and has destroyed vast coffee growing areas in the region. If plants recover the coffee cherries grow back very small, like these, and are hardly worth harvesting. This disease has caused a significant crisis across the region that depends economically on income from coffee.
