date:Aug 25, 2015
equires farmers to exclusively grow coffee.
Especially these peasant farmers who maybe have a small plot of land, they rely almost exclusively on coffee sales to sustain themselves, Myers said.
Major drops in commodities prices of coffee beans to around $0.50 per pound in 2001 nearly wiped out economies of those nations, for example.
That really hit the famers hard, and it caused a lot of these family farms that have historically relied on coffee to keep themselves afloat, Myers said.
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