South America’s only native bear is under threat. “Bearing in mind that 70 percent of Colombia’s human population is concentrated in the Andes, it just wasn’t possible.” Instead, We Conserve Life partnered with farmers willing to free up some of their land to form biological pathways to link forests and protected areas like Tatamá, Fallarones and Munchique National Natural Parks, …
Local cooperatives are stepping in to support vulnerable farmers, mostly women, struggling in conflict-ridden eastern DRC. Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Early each morning, 50-year-old Kavira Matsetse walks for two hours to reach her coffee plantation in Biakato, in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri province. The conflict has also made it difficult to gauge the exact …
Sanketh Appaiah, a young coffee planter in a village near Madikeri in north Kodagu, is now the proud owner of a new SUV thanks to the rising prices of coffee over the past three months. For the first time in 15 years, the coffee price has increased, helping me to fulfil my plan of buying a new SUV this year,” …
Coffee growers in Karnataka, the leading coffee-producing State in India, are unhappy that the recently presented Union Budget did not provide any “relief” to them, despite the coffee industry grappling with adverse conditions for the past few years, primarily attributed to climate change and a shortage of labour. “Over the last five years, coffee cultivators in Karnataka have faced significant …
DELHI: Coffee growers from Karnataka and Kerala will join the total village shutdown call made by farmers' bodies across the country on February 16 to highlight their economic plight, demanding a declaration of fair remunerative price for coffee and initiate concrete steps for cooperative procurement with immediate effect to give a shield to small growers from market fluctuations. Earlier, the …
A magistrate court on Wednesday issued a non-bailable warrant against Cafe Coffee Day Group Director Malavika Hegde, in a cheque bounce case in Chikkamagalur. since they failed to do so, the court issued the non-bailable warrants against 8 persons – the company as a respondent, its MD and CEO, its Director Malavika, and other functionaries like CFO,” said lawyer Halekoti …
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