Coffee Prices Are at a 50-Year High. Producers Aren’t Celebrating.

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Coffee Prices Are at a 50-Year High. Producers Aren’t Celebrating.

These should be wonderful times at Finca El Puente, a coffee plantation carved into the mountains of southwestern Honduras. On world markets, the price of ordinary coffee has more than doubled over the past year. The specialty varieties of coffee harvested at the farm have long commanded a hefty premium, reflecting their status as the source of aromatic brews savored like fine wine from Seattle to Seoul. On a recent afternoon, a buyer from Malay…

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Coffee Prices Are Soaring, but Growers Aren’t Celebrating

Workers spreading coffee beans at a farm in Honduras. The history of coffee is in no small measure the story of exploitation in pursuit of expanding supplies to drive prices lower.

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