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New Anacafé chief: Guatemalan state must do more to finance battle against coffee rust

The government needs to wake up and smell the reality, says head of Guatemala coffee growers association.

Neil Young vows Starbucks boycott over GMOs

NEW YORK – Rock icon Neil Young has pledged to stop drinking at Starbucks over an industry challenge to laws on genetically modified crops, but the coffee giant says the charges are false.

Gold erases 2014 gains as silver slumps to 55-month low on GDP

NEW YORK — The more the U.S. economy improves, the worse things get for gold.

Whole Foods’ responsibly grown rating system labels Costa Rican bananas grown at EARTH University as ‘Best’

The supermarket chain’s new "Responsibly Grown" produce rating system was launched earlier in October and divides fruits, flowers and vegetables into three categories: Good, Better and Best, based on suppliers’ farming practices.

As oil plummets, Venezuela goes from bad to worse

Prices for Venezuela's oil, which accounts for 95 percent of the nation's exports, are tumbling to a four-year low and threatening to choke off the export dollars the country needs to pay its debts.

5-year moratorium proposed on pineapple production in Costa Rica

Edgardo Araya, a legislator for the Broad Front Party from Alajuela, and a number of community representatives from pineapple-producing zones, on Monday urged the executive branch to pass a decree that would place a moratorium on pineapple production for five years. They argued that pineapple producers have not been held accountable for the environmental impact of their activities.

Costa Rica will go all-in on pineapple exports. But is that a good thing?

Pineapple is one of Costa Rica's fastest-growing and most lucrative agricultural exports. And with China's market on the horizon, export numbers could soon double. Is the country ready for that?

Costa Rican court hands GMO opponents a victory by declaring permitting process unconstitutional

In a ruling Thursday lauded by Costa Rica's anti-GMO activists, the country's Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court, or Sala IV, struck down the government's regulatory framework on genetically modified organisms, declaring the process of approval for GMO projects unconstitutional.

Genetically modified coffee could be just around the corner

A consortium of scientists announced Thursday in Science that they've sequenced the coffee genome for the first time. By determining all of the genes that make up robusta coffee, a plant variety that accounts for about one-third of the world's consumption, they've opened the door to better breeding practices and even genetic engineering.

Rescued Nicaragua miners join hunt for missing comrades

BONANZA, Nicaragua – Twenty workers dramatically rescued from a collapsed Nicaraguan gold mine joined frantic efforts to find five comrades still missing after the cave-in, officials said Saturday.

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