Present occurrence location data identify climates currently suitable to produce coffee. We derived the occurrence points from three sources: (i) Geo-referenced coffee farms; (ii) geo-referenced municipalities in Brazil that produce coffee; and (iii) geo-referenced coffee-growing areas identified from Google Earth where data sources (i) or (ii) were not available.
Most occurrence points came from a global database of 62,000 geo-referenced individual farms with predominantly C. arabica and some C. canephora. The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) developed the database during several regional projects that were conducted in collaboration with coffee cooperatives and cooperating research organizations.