Rising coffee prices are putting a fresh grind on your local café – National

Rising coffee prices are putting a fresh grind on your local café – National

Ottawa’s Han Langenbahn has a daily ritual of checking the weather forecast in Brazil. The master roaster at Happy Goat Coffee Co., a chain of cafés in the nation’s capital, says it’s a hectic time for the industry. Bouts of severe drought in Brazil and Vietnam are among a handful of factors driving up global … Read more

‘Winners and losers’: The world of coffee is being reordered by EU laws to stop cutting of forests

‘Winners and losers’: The world of coffee is being reordered by EU laws to stop cutting of forests

Le Van Tam is no stranger to how the vagaries of global trade can determine the fortunes of small coffee farmers like him. He first planted coffee in a patch of land outside Buon Ma Thuot city in Vietnam’s Central Highland region in 1995. For years, his focus was on quantity, not quality. Tam used … Read more