MILAN – The Venezuelan coffee sector is struggling with shortages of fuel, agro-chemicals, and replacement parts, says USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service in its latest...
PARIS—A looming butter shortage has pushed prices up to exorbitant levels, and one baking industry group is warning of “a major crisis” that could imperil the very existence of the croissant as we know it—or at least as we ought to know it. A “major crisis” over a crescent roll? Oh, yes.
by William Foreman
With the world’s largest coffee-growing regions under threat, two U-M researchers continue poring over better ways to control pests by harnessing the...
GUATEMALA CITY – Idalia López and Moisés Ramírez are Guatemalan smallholder farmers whose livelihoods have been devastated by Coffee Rust.
Like millions of other Central...
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...
WATERBURY, Vt. – As part of its focus on water stewardship, Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. has announced a multi-faceted effort to address the long-term,...
Graphics artist and part-time barmaid, Mariza Papasmiria struggled for years juggling her two jobs, working in Greece seven days a week for 1,600 euros...