by Gabriela Tyggum | Dec 16, 2020 | Hurricane Eta and Iota, Latin America
Harvest season had just begun for MoisĂ©s GarcĂa and his family when Hurricane Eta hit Copán, Honduras causing coffee picking to stop, coffee cherries to fall and parts of their bean production to be harmed. Weeks later, Hurricane Iota made landfall, bringing heavy...
by Gabriela Tyggum | Nov 13, 2020 | Central America
“On Wednesday evening, strong water streams coming from the flooded river of Higuito destroyed parts of my house and farm”, explains Francisco Monroy, a smallholder coffee farmer from Ocotepeque, Honduras. “Our harvest was ready in two weeks”, he says, while...