The story behind the rise in coffee prices worldwide

Climate change is a challenge for farmers everywhere. That includes coffee farmers. But climate change alone doesn’t explain the current uptick in prices. There’s another force at play. Peter Roberts, an academic director of specialty coffee programs at the Business and Society Institute at Emory University, helps demystify what’s happening in the market.

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