Extreme weather pressuring Brazil’s coffee export

Brazil is the world’s largest coffee exporter, and last year, the country saw record production.  But extreme weather has destroyed many coffee plants across Brazil, threatening the Latin American country’s coffee producers. Michael Fox reports on what that means to farmers and how it could raise the cost of your caffeine fix.

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