(top-left) Firew Bekele interviewing smallholder farmers about the opportunities for the production of Arabica coffee at high elevations in a changing climate, (top-right) Ayco Tack visiting Haramaya University and nearby coffee plantations in Harar region in Eastern Ethiopia, (bottom-left) Ditte Christiansen and Laura van Dijk placing out dataloggers in the Anemone metapopulation in the middle of a snow storm, and (bottom-right) Biruk Nurihun celebrating together with his opponent Ivette Perfecto and theoretical ecologist John Vandermeer after successfully defending his PhD thesis on ‘The relationship between climate, disease and coffee yield: optimizing management for smallholder farmers’.