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The abandoned farms behind the global coffee craze

14 mins | May 28, 2019

Emiko Terazono, Jude Webber and Andres Schipani, writing in the Financial Times, expose the plight of coffee farmers in May 2019 - with many growers making little or no margin, the farms are being abandoned.

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