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Drought threatens Brazil’s coffee

Asger Mow & Steffen Stubager, BrazilOctober 30, 2014

Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world. So much so that it's the world's second largest commodity. But that commodity is now under severe pressure. Extreme weather has destroyed a large part of this year’s harvest in Brazil, the world's largest exporter of coffee. Drought has triggered a coffee crisis damaging the economy of thousands of small coffee farmers.

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