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USAID – U.S. Agency provides $10 million in food assistance to Central Americans affected by drought and coffee rust
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WASHINGTON, D.C., US – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a $10 million award to the UN World Food Program to provide...
GUATEMALA – Anacafe presents new coffee rust-resistant variety
Guatemala's National Coffee Association, or Anacafe, announced the existence of a new coffee variety resistant to the leaf rust fungus. The plant, dubbed Anacafe-14, was...
US – American farmers volunteer to help Fight serious coffee blight in Central America
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. skilled volunteers are helping Central American growers struggling with a serious coffee blight that has led to shortages and higher...
COOPERATION – USAID, Keurig Green Mountain, Cooperative Coffees, Starbucks and Root Capital launch $23 million Resilience Fund to help coffee growers in Latin America...
WASHINGTON, D.C., US – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with Keurig Green Mountain, Inc., Cooperative Coffees, Starbucks, and Root Capital,...
COOPERATION – USAID, Texas A&M invest $5 million to combat Coffee Rust Crisis
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) today announced a $5 million partnership with Texas A&M University’s World Coffee Research to...
COOPERATION – Borlaug Institute leads effort to rebuild Central American coffee industry
COLLEGE STATION, TX — The largest project of its type for Texas A&M AgriLife aims to reconstruct a Central American coffee industry still recovering...
CLIMATE – El Nino may hike coffee prices further
The upcoming El Nino threatens to drive coffee prices up further, which are already high due to drought in Brazil and as a fungus...
USAID – U.S. and Mexico partner to increase cacao production in El Salvador
MEXICO CITY - The Governments of the United States and Mexico today partnered with the Government of El Salvador to increase cacao production as...
GLOBAL – Fairtrade offers alternative to coffee price roller coaster
Coffee is notorious for being a boom and bust commodity. The small scale farmers that make up the majority of global coffee production remember...
LATIN AMERICA – GMCR, MIF, Skoll Foundation and Root Capital join forces to fight Roya
BURLINGTON, VT — Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (GMCR), the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the InterAmerican Development Bank and Skoll Foundation announce today...