Silvio Almeida’s coffee plantation sits at an ideal altitude on a Brazilian hillside, whose clay-rich soil does well at ...

Brazilian coffee producer Moacir Donizetti first smelled the smoke, and then watched in desperation as a blaze consumed his family coffee plantation last year. The 54-year-old was one of hundreds ...

Brazil's coffee stockpile nearly depleted due to drought and high global prices Farmers sold most of 2024 crop, leaving low ...

Catherine Bashiama, a farmer, walks through her coffee plantation that grows excelsa beans near Nzara ... Experts say estimates from drought-stricken Brazil, the world’s top coffee grower, are that ...

Coffee is the sixth-biggest driver of global deforestation, with farmers in Brazil, Vietnam and Indonesia clearing ancient rainforests to make way for plantations. As the world’s biggest ...

The agribusiness consultancy expects Brazil’s planted soy area to expand just 1.1% to 36.3 million hectares, well below the average annual growth of 5.2% over the past decade.

droughts and excessive rains — most recently in Brazil and Vietnam, the world’s two largest coffee producers. This is what generates anxiety at coffee plantations around the planet.

Experts say estimates from drought-stricken Brazil, the world’s top coffee grower, are that this year’s harvest could be down by some 12 per cent.

Back then, in early 2024, robusta prices had reached their highest levels in around 45 years amid tightening robusta bean ...