Climate Change Cause Of Costa Rica Coffee Crop Yields Drop

Near the crest of a hill on a farm named La Edda for his mother, Francisco Flores bends a knee to touch the curled, yellowed leaves of a young coffee tree, one of hundreds on a windswept ridge where coffee grew strong two decades ago. “They live, but they don’t produce,” Flores said. “I have an ache in my heart. It’s very difficult to see coffee businesses that went from generation to generation to generation, closing.” Read Article