Extreme weather is ravaging arabica harvests in Brazil, the world’s largest coffee producer, turning a cup of joe into something of a luxury item.
At her farm near Corquin, Esperanza Torres Melgar, 59, has grown accustomed to traders showing up and offering immediate cash ...
Coffee prices have hit an all-time high, and thieves are cashing in. Organized gangs are stealing truckloads of beans worth up to $180,000, exploiting gaps in the supply chain. The crisis mirrors ...
Theft of truck loads of green coffee beans is surging in the United States, the world's largest importer of the commodity, as ...
In a Brazilian coffee warehouse usually stuffed with a quarter of a million bags of the aromatic bean, voices echo in the ...
Theft of coffee has been reported in producing countries such as Brazil and Vietnam, usually in farms where the beans are temporarily stored after the harvest. Those sites are more vulnerable ...