Costa Rican coffee farmers were once blessed with abundant rains but as precipitation grows fickle they are being forced to innovate to keep producing one of the world’s favorite brews. The country’s ...

In Costa Rica’s Los Santos region, famous for producing nearly half the country’s coffee, farmers are reeling from heavy losses driven by wild weather. Climate change is hitting hard, with an ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — You know the Starbucks name, but have you seen the one coffee farm the company owns? It’s in Costa Rica. The Hacienda Alsacia Farm has been in existence since 1970. Starbucks bought ...

SAN JOSE — John Jairo Guerrero Brenes was about 15 or 16 years old when he arrived in Costa Rica with his family to harvest coffee. He used to live in Nueva Guinea, a municipality in the southern ...

SAN JOSE, June 2 (Reuters) - Costa Rican coffee farmers exported 39% more beans in May than in the same month a year ago, the coffee institute ICAFE said on Friday. The Central American country ...

Bees are crucial for producing many of our beloved foods and beverages. Coffee is one crop that benefits from bee pollination. Restoring pollinators’ habitat is essential, both to stop their decline ...

Previously, farmers like Johel Alvarado needed to do little more than plant and wait for the country's once-consistent rains. Now he has had to install a drip irrigation system on his four-hectare ...