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Rainforest Alliance and Nestlé form ‘Ecolaboration’ around coffee

Rainforest Alliance and the Nestlé Nespresso Company signed the “Ecolaboration pact” on Monday, an agreement that is aimed at benefiting coffee growers in Costa...

Coffee-Table Book Paints Portrait of Guanacaste

Many cameras find themselves pointed west from Costa Rica’s renowned northern Pacific coast, capturing fiery sunsets over the azure sea. In “Guanacaste: Life Portraits,” a...

Shade-Grown Coffee Reaps 2 Kinds of Green Rewards

Shade-grown coffee, a more environmentally friendly way of cultivating the world’s favorite bean, already fetches a higher price on supermarket shelves. But coffee growers who...

Tico Coffee Maker May Be Outta This World

Tired of having to drink that instant coffee crap they give you in space? So was Costa Rican Franklin Chang when he was an...

Rainforest Activist Says Coffee Leads Way

Speaking to the coffee industry gathered in San José recently for the annual Sintercafé coffee conference, Tensie Whelan described her vision of the future. “Imagine...

Play Unites Breast Cancer, Coffee-Picking Themes

A new play, “Baile el Capital,” shows that coffee pickers have more than just beans on their minds. A group of women and their...

Guanacaste Coffee Coop Awarded $45K

The Agriculture and Livestock Ministry awarded the Santa Elena coffee cooperative with ¢25 million (about $45,500) for sustainable and environmentally friendly farming. The cooperative, in...

Bean Ladies Meeting In Coffee Country

The Women in Coffee Alliance, an organization that brings together women in the coffee industry, is holding its first international conference in Costa Rica. The...

The British Captain Who Revolutionized Costa Rica’s Coffee Trade

When devout Christian Capt. William Le Lacheur first arrived in the Pacific port city of Puntarenas in the mid-19th century, he was horrified at...

Market Speculators Could Be Affecting Coffee Prices

MANAGUA Nicaraguan coffee producers should be wary of rising coffee prices that may be unrealistically inflated due to speculative buying by commodity investors, said...

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