Dear Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure to announce that the 24th ASIC International Conference on Coffee Science, ASIC 2012, will take place in San José, Costa Rica, from November 11th to 16th, 2012.

ASIC warmly accepted the invitation of ICAFE, the Costa Rican Coffee Institute, for the organization of this unique coffee event.

It is the first time that ASIC Conference will happen in a Central American country. The remarkable efforts to preserve in this unique area of production very high standards of quality let anticipate scientific communications of great interest.

Coffee scientists have to face several important challenges among them the rapid climatic change. ASIC 2012 will be the platform to report and debate on the proposed solutions aimed to preserve the quality and the quantity of the different origins. Other topics of interest will be in the agenda of the Conference, such as the relationship between coffee consumption and human health.

With areas of coffee production nearby San José, the opportunity to combine visits of coffee plantations with natural volcanic beauties of Costa Rica will be numerous.

The traditional hospitality of Costa Rica and other Central American countries let anticipate an unforgettable ASIC 2012 Conference.

We look forward to meeting you in San José, Costa Rica, in November 2012.

Mr. Andrea Illy
President ASIC

 

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