Coffee Origins

Marianella Baez Jost, founder of Costa Rican coffee farm Café Con Amor, gets real about coffee production costs, how farmers have been in crisis for decades, and what conscious consumers can do about it.

Historically, coffee traveled from producing countries in the Global South to consuming countries in the Global North. But increasingly, coffee producers are opening cafes that prioritize their own communities—and changing the wider coffee industry…

Four farmers in Central America tackle the realities of climate change head-on, challenging antiquated ideas about coffee and inspiring a wave of sustainable farming practices. 

Coffee collected from the droppings of civets is sought after by the rich and deplored by animal welfare advocates. Caught in the middle are the farmers who produce it.

What happens to coffee when it doesn't rain enough? In coffee-producing countries worldwide, drought conditions are drying up coffee cherries and threatening production.

Long believed to be detrimental to quality, how one farm showed intercropping coffee bushes with other plants can improve coffee and increase biodiversity.

If you drink specialty coffee, you're drinking something that was handpicked. Here's a peek into the lives of women coffee pickers in Nicaragua.

Experimental coffee processing methods are becoming increasingly popular in the specialty coffee world. But what does it mean for farmers to engage with the potential—and risk—of these methods?

The average age of coffee farmers in Colombia is 55. But there’s a thriving community of producers and changemakers making coffee viable and exciting for the next generation. 

Across Colombia, producers are adapting and implementing new models for producing coffee—here's how two producers used regenerative agriculture to improve their farms.